Conventions Quote by Charles Guggenheim

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva…

— Noam Chomsky

“We have literal war criminals (as defined by the Geneva convention, which we are very much a signatory to) living in this country who…

— Chris Kluwe

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

— Nawal El Saadawi

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

— Peter Maurer

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were…

— Robert McNamara

Moreover, there is this completely false trial. I would participate wholeheartedly in a trial if it were to determine the guilt for 5 million…

— Hans Fritzsche

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…

— John McCain

“But no soldier above the rank of sergeant ever served jail time. No civilian interrogators ever faced legal proceedings. Nobody was ever charged with…

— Philip Gourevitch

If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the globe with…

— Andrew Sullivan

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law…

— Ed Balls

There's a reason the United States opposes the very existence of the International Criminal Court, at least where American war crimes are concerned.

— Neil Macdonald

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

— Paulo Coelho