Sanctions Quotes
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The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.
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The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
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Whether he takes notice or not, I'm not sure, but what I am certain about is that if he does not call off his thugs, allow free and fair elections, allow the international media in, then these sanctions will kick in.
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We don't take a macro view, ... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.
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We are not proposing economic sanctions at the moment. Mugabe has already imposed the most terrible economic sanctions on his own people by collapsing the Zimbabwean economy.
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Sanctions against such country as Russia are unlikely to be effective.
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Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.
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We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons, that has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions in case Iran violates the agreement. Our concern is that Iran will use the income it receives as a result of the lifting of the nuclear sanctions in order to fund its nefarious activities in the region.
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We are only at the beginning. I don't exclude sanctions but it depends on the type of sanctions. We certainly don't want to target the Iranian people.
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I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.
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I don't think this is the moment to do sanctions, and I do think the sanctions may contribute to the opposite that we want to obtain, which is defusing of the crisis.
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People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. Ive never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.
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With oil prices actually lower than they were when we announced our sanctions and global production stable, we are on the fast track to zeroing out all purchases of Iranian crude.
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Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.
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We will use every tool available to pursue fraud against the New York Medicaid program wherever it occurs, ... The criminal and civil sanctions imposed on Heritage and Arnold demonstrate our continuing efforts to prosecute fully any crimes we uncover and return misappropriated funds to the State.
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I think people look at recruiting and they don't realize you've got to go back four years ago to get this senior class. Sanctions don't hit you the first year. They hit you down the road. Unfortunately, that's what has happened, to a degree, to this program. I don't want to put it all on that.
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Our sanctions do not give Iran the right to accelerate its nuclear program, it can never get near a nuclear bomb. We are looking very closely at that so it doesn't get below the one-year nuclear breakout time.
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America's sanctions policy remains intact, and it will remain intact until it changes, if it does, and I'm not sure it will.
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The Lebanese banking system helps Iran, Syria & Hezbollah evade sanctions.
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Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.
