Sanctions Quotes · Page 3

We will never regain control of our borders until we have an effective employer sanctions program,

— Romano L. Mazzoli

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Desmond Fouche

I'm against lifting any sanctions on the Russians.

— Mitch McConnell

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

— Alexander Lukashenko

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

— George Washington

America will regret imposing sanctions on Iran... they're already isolated in the world.

— Hassan Rouhani

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

— Tom Allen

The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.

— Matteo Salvini

the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.

— Letty M. Russell

The West's sanctions are not aimed at helping Ukraine, but at geo-politically pushing Russia back. They are foolish and are merely harming…

— Vladimir Putin

Not one single country in the world is dependent for their trade wholly on WTO guidelines - they aren't 'rules,' because the…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

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

— Barack Obama

I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by…

— Hassan Blasim

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history…

— Roger Scruton

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot,…

— Madeleine Albright

The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they…

— Bernard Bailyn

Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit…

— Ayn Rand

As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term…

— Eskinder Nega

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

I thought it was important to speak about what I believe would be the right response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. I'm…

— Mike Pence

When we want to let go of a situation no matter what it is we must be able to "bless" it. When…

— Sue Augustine

We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to…

— Bob Hawke

It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his…

— Simon Greenleaf

“Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Joseph Story

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

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

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

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

— Louis Farrakhan

Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they…

— John Locke

I would have doubled up and tripled up the sanctions [on Iran] and made a good deal.

— Donald Trump

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

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

— Robert Mugabe

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

— John Kasich

We have put in the toughest, most crippling sanctions ever.

— Barack Obama

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

— Omar Bongo

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao