Agreement Quotes - Page 34

• Organization has to come from an agreement about principles, rather than just the need to coordinate: so as much as we must all act today in a concerted manner, that should not be the ground of an organization.

  Nigel Gibson

  Organization, Principles, Needs

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some of these other major expenditures that we have that we've got to deal with to make sure that we're not just leaving you guys with a mountain of debt.

  Barack Obama

  Guy, Leaving, Mountain

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• [Mikhail] Gorbachev complained. He was told look, there's nothing on paper. People didn't actually say it but the implication was look, if you are dumb enough to take faith in a gentleman's agreement with us, that's your problem. NATO expanded to East Germany.

  Noam Chomsky

  East Germany, People, Dumb

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Michael Flynn, national security adviser, [his reaction] to the Iranian missile test the other day was very frightening. Now the missile test is ill-advised, they shouldn't have done it. But it's not in violation of international law or international agreements. They shouldn't have done it. His reaction suggested maybe we're going to go to war in retaliation.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Law, Done

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.

  Solon

  Party, Men, Law

  "Ancient Civilizations". Book by George Shelley Hughs, p. 596, 1896.

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• To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.

  Edmund Burke

  Responsibility, Power, People

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• In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or to monitor compliance with the existing legal ban on biological weapons.

  John Burroughs

  Administration, Weapons, Negotiation

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• Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights Declaration, and of course the United Nations is based here in New York City. But, unfortunately, especially in the last decade, the U.S. really has been turning its back on international agreements and the set of agencies and procedures that they create as a means for governing the world.

  John Burroughs

  New York, War, Mean

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• [Tikka Khan] went to East Pakistan with precise orders and came back by precise orders. He did what he was ordered to do, though he wasn't always in agreement, and I picked him because I know he'll follow my orders with the same discipline.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Order, Discipline, East

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• I recently heard young people talking about collective bargaining agreements - I hadn't heard young people use that phrase in forever!

  Cleve Jones

  Talking, People, Forever

  "Legendary LGBT Activist Wants You to Get Up and Fight". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• I've always viewed the Paris Agreement as a starting point. If you look at all the commitments that have been made by all the countries, it's still not sufficient to deal with the very dangerous situation we face. What it has done is that it created an architecture whereby as technology improves, as we find new clean sources of energy, as we make our economies more efficient, then gradually we can turn up the dial and improve the outcomes of Paris.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Commitment, Technology

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Historically, when a previous US administration enters into an agreement, it carries forward into the future administration.

  Barack Obama

  Administration, Carrie

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The good news is that the Paris Agreement is not just a bilateral agreement between the United States and some other country. You have 200 countries who came together. It's an international agreement.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Paris, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• Both of our nations [America and Germany] were proud to join the Paris Climate Agreement which the world should work to implement quickly. Continued global leadership on climate in addition to increasing private investment and clean energy is gonna be critical to meeting this growing threat.

  Barack Obama

  Paris, America, Energy

  Source: time.com

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• We were able to conclude a Paris climate agreement, which will lead the way for the rest of the world, which is groundbreaking. And together with the sustainable development goals of the agenda 2030 for the whole world, this is indeed a sea change, I think, that we see here, and, step-by-step, it will be implemented.

  Angela Merkel

  Thinking, Sea, Paris

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very pleased we were able to bring this to fruition between Canada and the E.U. We've made great progress, particularly if we look at one of the great global issues, namely climate protection, without the engagement of the current administration under the leadership of Barack Obama, this Paris agreement would never have come about.

  Angela Merkel

  Issues, Paris, Progress

  "Read President Obama's Comments Urging Donald Trump to Stand Up to Russia". time.com. November 17, 2016.

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• The European Union and the United States of America are the big important economic areas for us, which is why I always have come up strongly in favor of concluding a trade agreement with the United States of America.

  Angela Merkel

  America, Important, United States

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• The commitment to international agreements is embodied, it's found in the U.S. Constitution. Article Six of the U.S. Constitution provides that treaties of the United States are part of the supreme law of the land along with the constitution itself and laws passed by Congress. Well, the US government certainly has not been acting in recent years as if treaties were part of the supreme law of the land.

  John Burroughs

  Commitment, Law, Land

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• THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

  Benjamin Graham

  Abuse, Credit, Elements

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part III, Chapter XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit Control, p. 153, 1937.

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• I rise to oppose the Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, the latest expression of the disastrous trade policies of this administration which are, unfortunately, a continuation of the disastrous trade policies of previous administrations.

  Russ Feingold

  Expression, Administration, Trade

  Congressional Record Volume 151 - Part 11, June 30, 2005.

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• Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.

  Jacques Barzun

  Mean, Men, Race

  Jacques Barzun (1965). “Race: a study in superstition”

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• Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Propositions, Ifs

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• During the debate over NAFTA President Clinton said, 'I believe that NAFTA will create a million jobs in the first five years of its impact.' WRONG. According to the Economic Policy Institute, NAFTA has led to the loss of more than 680,000 U.S. jobs. I voted against NAFTA and other bad trade agreements and am fighting to stop the TPP.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

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• Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.

  David Brooks

  Running, Long, Benefits

  "Shields and Brooks on the Senate's trade battle, train safety funding". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 15, 2015.

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