Embargo Quotes

• Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Islamic, Government, Support

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• One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Writing, Law, Achievement

  "Lincoln Diaz-Balart opts out of 2010" by Josh Kraushaar, www.politico.com. February 11, 2010.

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• Did you know that..........'embargo' spelled backwards is 'o grab me

  Colin Mochrie

  Backwards, Knows, Did You Know

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• The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

  Bianca Jagger

  Nicaragua, Weakening

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• Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

  Paul Berg

  Technology, Drug, Disease

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• Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo.

  Jacques Verges

  Children, Iraq, Wells

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• We call for a weapons embargo.

  Jill Stein

  Weapons

  "Ben Carson on Trump's outreach to African-Americans; Dr. Jill Stein on appealing to undecided voters". Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 4, 2016.

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• Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.

  Richard Yates

  Benefits, Might, Occasional

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• And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.

  Shimon Peres

  Thinking, Underdog, England

  "Making History". Interview with Benny Morris, www.tabletmag.com. July 26, 2010.

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• We call for, actually, a weapons embargo to the Middle East, which we can lead since we are supplying the majority of weapons which, in fact, then find their way into all parties on all sides.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Majority, Middle East

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• We have a deal. And so there's movement towards a peace agreement, you know, a peace accord, a cease-fire, which is great. That's fabulous. It's unfortunate that we're also bombing Syria together [with Russians], and in my view we need - what we need to do together is create a weapons embargo together and get all the parties with the program here, and also collaborate on a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries that continue to fund terrorist enterprises, the No. 1 source of that being the Saudis.

  Jill Stein

  Country, Party, Views

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• [Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists.

  David Muir

  Home, Criticism, Cuba

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.

  Dan Quayle

  Would Be, Politics, Economy

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• I can tell the negotiators, please, when you consider all the options, do not be constrained by the risk of an oil embargo on Iranian oil.

  Claude Mandil

  Oil, Risk, Please

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• 450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If you believe God loves little children - and hundreds of thousands more Iraqi children will die if there is war - you have to believe that God will judge us very harshly for this.

  Jane Elliott

  Children, War, Believe

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• I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

  Kate Zambreno

  Men, Thinking, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Liberty, Danger, Restriction

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• This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Country, United States, Example

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo.

  Chris Christie

  Brother, Return, Clinton

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• You have to look at the reality in Syria. Whenever we liberate any city or village from the terrorists, the civilians will go back to the city, while they flee that city when the terrorists attack that area, the opposite. So, they flee, first of all, the war itself; they flee the area under the control of the terrorists, they flee the difficult situation because of the embargo by the West on Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, Reality, Difficult Situations

  "Syria's al-Assad speaks: Why he blames U.S. for truce's demise, and says war will 'drag on'". Interview with Ian Phillips, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 22, 2016.

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• Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and this new object then becomes, to use the apt expression of one of my women patients, 'impossible' - till at last the whole world lies under an embargo of 'impossibility'.

  Sigmund Freud

  Lying, Expression, Use

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.32, Routledge

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• It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the present session because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn's election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Autumn, Thinking, Russia

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• Now, in answer to the question would we use force in the Middle East. I don't know...I hope not. We have no plans to, it is conceivable, I guess. It would be almost as bad as the seven days in May. You conjure up a situation where there is another oil embargo, and the people in this country are not only inconvenienced and uncomfortable, but suffer.

  George Scratchley Brown

  Country, Oil, People

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• The U.S. is re-establishing relations with Cuba. But before President Obama can lift the embargo, it will need approval from the Republican-controlled Congress - or as Republicans who called Obama said, 'Close, but no cigar.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  President, Cuba, Needs

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• Every single American can exclaim, 'Nothing justifies what they did in New York and Washington,' not even the bombs that our government has dropped on them for ten years or the embargo that has caused the deaths of so many children. That's of course true...The issue is simply an acceptance of reality and a fundamental fact of life: When governments do bad things to people, people sometimes retaliate.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  New York, Children, Acceptance

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