#sanctions

Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#destruction #mass #need #people #sanctions

Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#actually #ago #alien #campaign #campaign finance

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word. ↗

— Caspar Weinberger

#foolish #indeed #ineffective #keep #negotiating

When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.'s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market. ↗

— Ali Babacan

#buy #buys #cannot #country #currency

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#clarified #clause #duty #further #initiative

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#desired #economic #rarely #results #sanctions

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#concept #incompatible #justice #principle #responsibility

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war. ↗

— George Galloway

#am #apparent #children #desire #devastating

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one. ↗

— George Galloway

#barrel #bought #campaign #i #iraq

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#europeans #many #sanctions #slippery #slippery slope