International Sanctions Quotes

#1. 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.

Mamnoon Hussain

#2. We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile program. And we will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously. Iran's recent missile test, for example, was a violation of its international obligations.

Barack Obama

#3. To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Russia will honour its international commitments. Our country is a reliable borrower, a reliable creditor and a reliable supplier. Sanctions come and go, but business ties, economic interests and the reputation of a state remain

Dmitry Medvedev

#5. After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline,

Dmitry Rogozin

#6. Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

Elliott Abrams

#7. We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You're sanctioning medicine for the people.

Hassan Rouhani

#8. The mere existence of sanctions is not sufficient to ensure compliance. If no attention is paid to supervision, there is a risk that sectors that resist the requirements will not comply with them or will comply less thoroughly than they should. Regular and thorough supervision enhances compliance.

International Monetary Fund

#9. Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#10. When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.

Pierce Brosnan

#11. The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

Allyson Schwartz

#12. We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

Hal Lindsey

#13. I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

Asif Kapadia

#14. Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are.

Johanna Spyri

#15. 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.

Roger Scruton

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

Li Zhaoxing

#17. Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.

Jessa Crispin

#18. Kenya is risking sanctions from international competition because international organisations think we are not addressing the problem in line with world best practice.

Kipchoge Keino

#19. Faced with the crippling sanctions, Iran could simply decide it is paying too high a cost to pursue its nuclear program and could opt for negotiations and reconciliation with the United States and other members of the international community. This is clearly the preferred option of American leaders.

Richard Engel

#20. It was all about taking the leap of faith. It said that the fear that stops us from doing what we really want, is often not based on reality. We shape our fears in our heads, but things are so much easier than we think.

Effrosyni Moschoudi

#21. Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.

Sergei Lavrov