Sanctions Quotes - Page 2

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

Do not sanction an absurdity.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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