Quotes About Economic Sanctions

#1. 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

#2. In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements.

Noam Chomsky

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

Omar Bongo

#6. 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

#7. We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#8. Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is ...

Carew Papritz

#9. 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

#10. The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.

Harold Wilson

#11. Unbelievable. Every girl at this college would cut her frickin' arm off to help me out. But this one? Runs away like I just asked her to murder a cat so we could sacrifice it to Satan.

Elle Kennedy

#12. I know I'm not supposed to say this, but I love you.

Richelle Mead

#13. We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.

A. D. Coleman

#14. Our speculations about Shakespeare are almost as multifarious and foolish as our speculations about the maker of the universe, and, like those, are frequently concerned to establish that his works were not made by him but by another person of the same name.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#15. Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#16. 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