Economic Sanctions Quotes

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

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Looks, Firsts

  Fuente: www.buzzfeed.com

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

  Omar Bongo

  Achieve, Results, Economic

  9 Copiar cita

• We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral.

  Denis Halliday

  Simple, Process, Destroying

  7 Copiar cita
• 

  Creo que es una elección muy difícil, pero el precio... creemos que merece la pena.

  Madeleine Albright

  Guerra, Pensamiento, Irak

  "60 Minutes", May 12, 1996.

  35 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Los graves crímenes del gobierno sudanés y de las milicias apoyadas por el gobierno deben tener graves consecuencias. Debemos trabajar para que se impongan duras sanciones económicas internacionales al gobierno sudanés.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Government, Serious, Tough

  7 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Elliott Abrams

  Military, Blood, League

  4 Copiar cita

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

  Judith Butler

  Way, Wonder, States

  Entrevista con Cihan Aksan y Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. 11 de octubre de 2013.

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?

  Lesley Stahl

  Children, War, Mean

  6 Copiar cita

• After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved, half a million of its children killed, its infrastructure severely damaged, after making sure that most of its weapons have been destroyed, in an act of cowardice that must surely be unrivalled in history, the 'Allies' / 'Coalition of the Willing' (better known as the Coalition of the Bullied and Bought) - sent in an invading army!

  Arundhati Roy

  Children, Army, Iraq

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.117, Penguin Books India

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka.

  David Letterman

  Drinking, Believe, Two

  6 Copiar cita

• 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.

  David Remnick

  Europe, World, Trends

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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.

  Eskinder Nega

  Pain, Europe, Long

  "A prisoner of conscience's call for sanctions against Ethiopia" by Eskinder Nega, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2013.

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

  Hassan Blasim

  Years, Iraq, World

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

  6 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• No tememos las sanciones económicas ni la intervención militar. Lo que tememos son las universidades occidentales.

  Ruhollah Jomeini

  Military, Islam, Not Afraid

  180 Copiar cita

• I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world... That does not require economic sanctions...I think we've got to take the risk and give up economic sanctions while hanging on to the disarmament programme and allow the Iraqis to get on with rebuilding their country.

  Denis Halliday

  Country, Giving Up, Thinking

  7 Copiar cita

• Hace poco hablamos de las sanciones económicas en Lima, en el marco de la APEC. Casi todos los líderes representados en la APEC (la región de Asia-Pacífico), los países del Pacífico, hablaron de lo mismo, a saber, que estamos atravesando una crisis muy aguda en el comercio mundial, en el comercio internacional, relacionada, entre otras cosas, con las restricciones impuestas a los mercados de determinados países.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Leader, World

  Fuente: www.rt.com

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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.

  Perseguir Ojos de Hierro

  Successful, Rocks, Differences

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente