Treaties Quotes - Page 9

• There is an international treaty framework for this. It's the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Most countries in the world are members of the treaty.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear

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• In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Able, Administration

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In 2009, US President [Barack] Obama said that the missile defense only serves as protection from Iranian nuclear missiles. But now there is an international treaty with Iran that bans Tehran from developing a potential military nuclear project.

  Vladimir Putin

  Military, Iran, President

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We do not trade territories although concluding a peace treaty with Japan is certainly a key issue and we would like to find a solution to this problem together with our Japanese friends.

  Vladimir Putin

  Keys, Japan, Issues

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Parliament. But then Japan refused to implement it and after that the Soviet Union also, so to say, nullified all the agreements reached within the framework of the treaty.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Agreement, Unions

  Source: thesaker.is

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• As long as the League of Nations constitutes only a treaty of guarantee for the victorious nations, it is by no means worthy of its name.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mean, Names, Long

  Source: nseuropa.wordpress.com

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• The US cannot be brought to the World Court for major crimes, for example the supreme international crime, invasion, or violation of the UN Charter, or violation of the Genocide Convention, these are things the US is exempt from, because they exempted themselves from being subjected to international treaties in World Court proceedings.

  Noam Chomsky

  Example, World, Invasion

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The fact that, with time, this League [of Nations]-which was presumably designed by its founders to exist for all eternity-cannot be coupled with a Treaty the short term of which is inherent in its own weaknesses and impracticabilities, is a point which can perhaps be contested by today's interested parties, but which will one day be deemed a matter of course in history.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, League, One Day

  Source: nseuropa.wordpress.com

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• I hold that this must be said, for treaties only make sense when concluded by honor-loving peoples and honor-conscious governments. Germany wishes to establish honest relations with the peoples of neighboring countries. We have done this in the East, and I believe that not only Berlin but Warsaw as well will rejoice in the decontamination of the atmosphere brought about through our joint efforts.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Believe, Government

  Source: nseuropa.wordpress.com

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• I'm a businessperson. I did really well. But I have common sense. And I said, well, I'll tell you. I haven't given lots of thought to NATO. But two things.Number one, the 28 countries of NATO, many of them aren't paying their fair share. Number two - and that bothers me, because we should be asking - we're defending them, and they should at least be paying us what they're supposed to be paying by treaty and contract.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Two, Numbers

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will honor them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Japan, Korea, Honor

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make sure that women had a decent chance to have a better life and negotiated a treaty with Russia to lower nuclear weapons. Four hundred pieces of legislation have my name on it as a sponsor or cosponsor when I was a senator for eight years.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Russia, Eight

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think wherever we can cooperate with Russia, that's fine. And I did as secretary of state. That's how we got a treaty reducing nuclear weapons. It's how we got the sanctions on Iran that put a lid on the Iranian nuclear program without firing a single shot.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Russia, Iran

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• [Jill Stein] want a global treaty to halt climate change that adds teeth and ends destructive energy extraction.

  Ralph Nader

  Want, Energy, Climate

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

  Richard M. Daley

  Travel, Airports, Needs

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• The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

  Paul Johnson

  War, World, Versailles

  Paul Johnson (1972). “The offshore islanders; England's people from Roman occupation to the present”

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• America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

  John Olver

  War, Moral High Ground, America

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• What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system for remunerating creators, which gets it the hell out of the face of the public (who were never aware of it to begin with in the pre-internet dead tree era). Unfortunately, the current copyright model is enshrined in international trade treaty law, making it almost impossible to work around.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Law, Broken

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• If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then you can't live traditionally. Then your treaty is being violated. Obviously there are degrees of choice in terms of that decision to fight.

  Avi Lewis

  Fighting, Hunting, Animal

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.

  Sitting Bull

  Men, White Man, Broken

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• We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them.

  Max Fisher

  Powerful, Europe, Age

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words ever determine lives.

  Leanna Renee Hieber

  War, Law, Should

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• We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Doe, Height, Compromise

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Army, Order, Law

  Daniel Berrigan (2009). “The Nightmare of God: The Book of Revelation”, p.22, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!

  Arca

  Song, Lying, Long

  "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.

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