#human rights

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#american #american interests #both #china #dialogue

Iran has a dismal record on human rights. ↗

— Howard Berman

#human #human rights #iran #record #rights

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#human #human rights #interests #national #national interests

But if USA has 1.3 billion people, USA would have the same human rights problem just like China. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#china #human #human rights #just #like

Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#based #built #croatia #democratic #democratic society

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative. ↗

— John Linder

#countries #deplorable #examples #few #human

The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction. ↗

— Gary Locke

#beijing #china #clear #direction #dissent

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#deny #human #human rights #humanity #people

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#basic human rights #comfort #concerns #country #dignity

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat. ↗

— Theresa May

#act #am #because #cannot #cat