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Sanctions are a bad idea.
Do not sanction an absurdity.
No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.
Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.
I'm against lifting any sanctions on the Russians.
Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.
Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.
We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.
The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.
Iranians have suffered economically under the U.S.-led sanctions.
Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.
I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.
Frankly, we should publicly increase them [ anti-Russian sanctions ].
Sanctions against such country as Russia are unlikely to be effective.
Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.
The sanctions which the West introduced against Russia seriously affect us.
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
In my experience, bad actors respond to threats of military action or sanctions.
Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.
I would have doubled up and tripled up the sanctions [on Iran] and made a good deal.
Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.
Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect.
If there's any country in the world that doesn't deserve sanctions relief, it's Russia.
In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.
America will regret imposing sanctions on Iran... they're already isolated in the world.
The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
Cyprus has a reputation as a laundromat for the Russians who are trying to avoid sanctions.
We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.
I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.
Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.
China always urges that no use or threat of sanctions should be allowed in international relations.
Sanctions and workfare make it easier for employers to impose insecure practices on desperate people.
But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .
Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.
The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.
I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.
For Italy, sanctions are never an end; they are an instrument that must be overcome as soon as possible.
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures.
I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.
If we lose Saudi Arabia because of sanctions or by avoiding them, they're going to China; they're going to Russia.
Unfortunately, history suggests that dictatorial regimes can withstand years, even decades, of economic sanctions.