Sanctions Quotes · Page 5

Frankly, we should publicly increase them [ anti-Russian sanctions ].

— John Kasich

American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No.…

— Philip Roth

[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old,…

— John Leo

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic -…

— Jared Harris

Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance…

— Anonymous

What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop…

— Alan Dershowitz

We understand that the Iranian position is very bad because of the well-known sanctions against that country, and it would be unfair…

— Vladimir Putin

The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy.

— Barack Obama

General [James] Mattis has said that the deal's in place. We can't unilaterally pull out of it without support from our allies…

— Peter R. Mansoor

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices…

— Henry Steele Commager

I voted for every sanction against Iran when I was in the Senate, but it wasn't enough. So I spent a year-and-a-half…

— Hillary Clinton

You look at the Middle East, you started the Iran deal, that's another beauty where you have a country that was ready…

— Lester Holt

Kenya is risking sanctions from international competition because international organisations think we are not addressing the problem in line with world best…

— Kipchoge Keino

“Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprising will be unlike…

— Reza Aslan

Iranians have suffered economically under the U.S.-led sanctions.

— Bob Beckel

I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

— William Wycherley

Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As…

— John B. S. Haldane

Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.

— Steve Hanke

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons…

— Noam Chomsky

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified…

— Hjalmar Branting

One of President Obama's winning points last night was about how sanctions against Iran are crippling their economy. And believe me, if…

— Jay Leno

Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe…

— Mary Robinson

The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

The Chinese are like a tank through a corn field, they just keep mowing through it. Senators want sanctions against countries supporting…

— Stewart Baker