Economic Sanctions Quotes

• Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Looks, Firsts

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

  Omar Bongo

  Achieve, Results, Economic

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• We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral.

  Denis Halliday

  Simple, Process, Destroying

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  I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Thinking, Iraq

  "60 Minutes", May 12, 1996.

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• The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Government, Serious, Tough

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• The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO.

  Elliott Abrams

  Military, Blood, League

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• I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.

  Judith Butler

  Way, Wonder, States

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?

  Lesley Stahl

  Children, War, Mean

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• After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved, half a million of its children killed, its infrastructure severely damaged, after making sure that most of its weapons have been destroyed, in an act of cowardice that must surely be unrivalled in history, the 'Allies' / 'Coalition of the Willing' (better known as the Coalition of the Bullied and Bought) - sent in an invading army!

  Arundhati Roy

  Children, Army, Iraq

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.117, Penguin Books India

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• Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka.

  David Letterman

  Drinking, Believe, Two

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• Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.

  David Remnick

  Europe, World, Trends

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.

  Eskinder Nega

  Pain, Europe, Long

  "A prisoner of conscience's call for sanctions against Ethiopia" by Eskinder Nega, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

  Hassan Blasim

  Years, Iraq, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Military, Islam, Not Afraid

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• I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world... That does not require economic sanctions...I think we've got to take the risk and give up economic sanctions while hanging on to the disarmament programme and allow the Iraqis to get on with rebuilding their country.

  Denis Halliday

  Country, Giving Up, Thinking

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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, Leader, World

  Source: www.rt.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, Differences

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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