Geneva Quotes
58 quotes by 49 authors
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Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished…
— Russell Baker
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War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You…
— Smedley Butler
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Somewhere along the way, New York became all about money. Or rather, it was always about money, but it wasn't all about money, if you…
— Graydon Carter
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It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib…
— John Yoo
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Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of…
— John McCain
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This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with…
— Wilhelm Keitel
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The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to…
— Barack Obama
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Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).
— Paulo Coelho
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What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
— Yoweri Museveni
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The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires…
— Atul Gawande
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It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva…
— Edward Kennedy
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Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down…
— Ernest Hollings
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This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
— Wilhelm Keitel
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At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange…
— Hjalmar Branting
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Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the…
— Rolf-Dieter Heuer
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Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here…
— Achim Steiner
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Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are…
— Margaret Chan
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The spirit of International Geneva is not only a catchword. It stands for Switzerland's commitment to advance international cooperation and dialogue - and we make…
— Didier Burkhalter
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There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that…
— Charles Guggenheim
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In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.
— Alberto Gonzales
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