Top 371 Sanctions Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.
We will never regain control of our borders until we have an effective employer sanctions program.
The sanctions which the West introduced against Russia seriously affect us.
[Rex] Tillerson is there to get these sanctions [against Russia] lifted. I believe it. Just watch him!
Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.
In my experience, bad actors respond to threats of military action or sanctions.
If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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.
I believe that dialogue is necessary. We were unable to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue through only the sanctions and pressure.
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.
I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.
Tough sanctions would mean saying to BP, Exxon, Chevron, Shell, Boeing and Siemens that they can't do business in Russia.
We understand that the Iranian position is very bad because of the well-known sanctions against that country, and it would be unfair to leave it on this sanction level.
Though there are some debatable exceptions, sanctions rarely play a significant role in dislodging or constraining the behavior of despicable regimes.
Sanctions and workfare make it easier for employers to impose insecure practices on desperate people.
The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.
American politicians have openly said that the sanctions are aimed at bringing about regime change in Russia. That's aggressive enough.
We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.
For Italy, sanctions are never an end; they are an instrument that must be overcome as soon as possible.
In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
People don't get angry about the half a million dead Iraqis from the sanctions.
America will regret imposing sanctions on Iran... they're already isolated in the world.
I believe it is wrong to give Moscow a rebate on Ukraine sanctions because of Syria.
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.
For now we must continue to strengthen our sanctions and pressure on North Korea.
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
I would have doubled up and tripled up the sanctions [on Iran] and made a good deal.
China always urges that no use or threat of sanctions should be allowed in international relations.
Unfortunately, history suggests that dictatorial regimes can withstand years, even decades, of economic sanctions.
International economic and political sanctions on Iran, as crucial as they may be, are only an initial step, and must be dramatically increased.
Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.
Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures.
Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect.
I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
When we have an effort made at sanctions involving many other nations it has a potential of greater impact on Russia and discouraging Putin.
We should have imposed new sanctions in 2013 and maintained the strength of our negotiating position, which is what brought Iran to the table in the first place.
The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted - but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this?
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked
Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.
The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy.
I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.
We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.
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.
If the world believes that Iran doesn't play by the rules and imposes sanctions, then we'll follow them whether we have an opinion about it or not.
If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions.
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.
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.
I just can't understand why we don't go forward and put more sanctions.
Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.
The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
One of the problems with the Security Council is that there are vetoes, and they do not allow us to do what might be justified from the point of view of sanctions.
The Arab nations must be on our side. And if we catch them financing, if they funnel money to IS, that's when sanctions and other actions have to kick in.
