Sanctions Quotes - Page 6

• America's sanctions policy remains intact, and it will remain intact until it changes, if it does, and I'm not sure it will.

  Daniel Fried

  America, Doe, Not Sure

  Source: www.politico.com

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• My guess is that Trump will begin withdrawing troops from Europe at a slow pace. He will demand a renovation of the Iran Accord and get nowhere with this. There might be more US sanctions on Iran. However, the Iranians will not compromise with Trump, and barring a naval confrontation in the Persian Gulf, it will be US businesses that will suffer and Trump's frustration level that will go up.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Frustration, Europe, Iran

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Another mess I inherited, and we have imposed new sanctions on the nation of Iran who has totally taken advantage of our previous administration, and they're the world's top sponsor of terrorism, and we're not going to stop until that problem is properly solved, and it's not properly solved now.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, Iran, Administration

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• What deal is [Maxine Waters] talking about? [Rex] Tillerson's done a lot of deals. [Donald] Trump's done a lot of deals, but she's got a deal in mind that Tillerson negotiated with [Vladimir] Putin. Putin is there, or Tillerson's there to lift the sanctions.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, Water, Mind

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Rex Tillerson] is gonna continue to work on [sanctions lifting]. This is important for him. He was there [in White House] because he negotiated the deal for Exxon with [Vladimir] Putin.

  Maxine Waters

  White, House, Important

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I did put together the coalition to impose sanctions. I actually started the negotiations that led to the nuclear agreement, sending some much my closest aides to begin the conversations with the Iranians.

  Hillary Clinton

  Agreement, Together, Nuclear

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• [Rex] Tillerson is there to get these sanctions [against Russia] lifted. I believe it. Just watch him!

  Maxine Waters

  Believe, Russia, Watches

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Why do you think [Russians] hacked into our election? Because they have to make sure that Donald Trump got elected so that he could help them with what I think is a huuuuge deal, not only to lift these sanctions, but to take over, y'know, all of these Soviet countries and pull 'em back into the Soviet Union, so that they could have access it to all of these resources. It's clear to me!

  Maxine Waters

  Country, Thinking, Ems

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I know that there is a difference of opinion, but we stand united with the Standing Rock Nation in wanting the most highly militarized blockade in North Dakota history to be lifted, because it's functioning as a successful economic sanction.

  Chase Iron Eyes

  Successful, Rocks, Economic Sanctions

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity.

  Mike Pence

  Russia, Ukraine, Land

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Donald Trump

  Iran, Made, Deals

  Source: www.economist.com

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• In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah. The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians.

  Edward Said

  Country, War, Islamic

  Source: www.progressive.org

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

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Nuclear, Purpose, Program

  "If the EU Doesn't Want Us, They Should Say it Now". DER SPIEGEL interview, www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2007.

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• That`s how you end up with a guy like Dan Fried, overseeing the U.S. sanctions against Russia for Russia did in Ukraine and Crimea.Russia hates those sanctions more than they love life. They hate those sanctions. So, of course, you need your toughest and most experienced guy running those sanctions.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Hate, Love Life

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Ukraine, West

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states - for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

  Noam Chomsky

  Honesty, Military, Together

  "How can America get out of Iraq?" by Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Schell, Howard Zinn, William Polk, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2004.

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• We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.

  Potter Stewart

  Taken, Punishment, Murder

  Potter Stewart's expression of the majority opinion in 7-2 ruling that the death penalty is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment for premeditated murder, July 2, 1976.

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• The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Cutting, Uganda

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

  Ken Wilber

  Individual, Goodness, Preference

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• It is our duty to give support to the brother leader ... especially in regards to the sanctions which are not hitting just him, they are hitting the ordinary masses of the people ... our African brothers and sisters.

  Nelson Mandela

  Brother, People, Giving

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• Our foreign ministries will simply need to sort out some purely technical matters. I see no political restraints here. The same applies to economic matters. We, on our part, are ready. However, let me repeat once again, given that Japan has joined the anti-Russian sanctions, how ready is Japan and how can it do that without breaching its commitments to its allies? We do not know the answer. Only Japan itself knows the answer.

  Vladimir Putin

  Commitment, Japan, Political

  Source: www.rt.com

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• We spoke about economic sanctions only recently in Lima, within the framework of APEC. Almost all the leaders represented at APEC (the Asia Pacific region), Pacific countries, spoke about the same thing, namely, that we are going through a very acute crisis in world trade, international trade, related, among other things, to restrictions on the markets of certain countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Economic Sanctions, Leader

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I commended Angela [Merkel] for her leadership along with President Hollande in working to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. We continued to stand with the people of Ukraine and for the basic principle that nations have a right to determine their own destiny and we discussed the importance of maintaining sanctions until Russia fully complies with the Minsk Agreement.

  Barack Obama

  Destiny, Russia, Ukraine

  Source: time.com

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• Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Religious, Zero, Elements

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• Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Levels, Economic

  Source: www.rt.com

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