Sanctions Quotes · Page 2

Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.

— Scott Ritter

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

— Jim Steranko

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

— Brian May

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

— Jean Cocteau

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.

— Oliver Tambo

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.

— Ken Wilber

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

— Sergei Lavrov

Trump has actually been tougher on Ukraine than President Obama was. The first thing he did was put sanctions on Russia as…

— Abby Huntsman

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

— Ayn Rand

I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people…

— Peter Hain

While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions…

— Elliott Abrams

If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of…

— Roger Mahony

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction…

— William Ellery Channing

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

— George Washington

I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason…

— George Galloway

In Pakistan lies our deliverance, defence and honour...In our solidarity, unity and discipline lie the strength, power and sanction behind us to…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would…

— Judith Butler

Businesses always are reluctant to make governmental filings about the purpose and terms of their relationships. That's particularly so when sensitive strategic…

— Eugene Scalia

People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. I've never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and…

— Adrienne Rich

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against…

— Omar Bongo

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of…

— Samuel Johnson

The level of vitriol against Jews and Christianity within contemporary Islam, unfortunately, is something that we are not totally cognizant of, or…

— Steven Emerson

If Donald Trump dismantles the agreement [the "Iran nuclear deal"] won by President Barack Obama with President Hassan Rouhani and the Iranian…

— Louis Farrakhan

What [Barack Obama] and I did was to say clearly what we're doing, all the bluster, all of the sanctions, that are…

— Hillary Clinton

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.…

— Edward Said

In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map, Libya was stable, Egypt was peaceful, Iraq was seeing really a big,…

— Donald Trump

“Collins and Morales represent a segment of society which, if attacked with the weapons society sanctions, one finds buffered by innumerable layers…

— Roger Zelazny

We know that Donald Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up [Vladimir] Putin, to support Putin, whether it's saying…

— Hillary Clinton

No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve,…

— Joseph Story

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

— Tom Allen

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

— Omar Bongo

These are serious matters, and we can never let up on these sanctions [against Russia].

— John Kasich

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

— Robert Mugabe

The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

— George Washington

The sanctions which the West introduced against Russia seriously affect us.

— Alexander Lukashenko

I'm against lifting any sanctions on the Russians.

— Mitch McConnell

EU and US imposing sanctions on Russia, they are calling it a Putiny.

— Desmond Fouche