Sanctions Quotes

We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

As you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's - ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions - you can't - we're out of sanctions.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

Frankly, we should publicly increase them [ anti-Russian sanctions ].

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.

Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

China always urges that no use or threat of sanctions should be allowed in international relations.

Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.

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

Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.

Do not sanction an absurdity.

There is a point where litigious becomes frivolous. And when you file frivolous lawsuits you can be hit by sanctions. I don't see the basis for suing "The New York Times." Ironically, it was "The New York Times" that was the plaintiff in "The New York Times" versus Sullivan.

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

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

The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .

Sanctions against such country as Russia are unlikely to be effective.