Geneva Quotes - Page 4

• Anything less than total candor was bullshit. I owed that to my readers, I owed that to myself, and I owed that most specifically to my mother. I've had some thrilling moments in my 18-year literary career to this point, and nothing comes close to giving Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, the farm girl from Tunnel City, Wisconsin, to the world.

  James Ellroy

  Girl, Mother, Tunnels

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America.

  Rand Paul

  America, Realizing, Conventions

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mean, Soldier

  Interview with M. Junaid Alam, www.counterpunch.org. December 27, 2004.

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• Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Civilized Nations, Trials, Should

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• I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me tell you why it is we distrust you.' Those words are candid and tough and they cannot have been easy to hear. But they are also a clear invitation to a new beginning and a new relationship that would be rooted in trust.

  Margaret Thatcher

  New Beginnings, New Relationship, Diplomats

  Remarks on the Passing of Ronald Reagan, tape delivered on 11 June 2004

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• The left, of course, will say Carson doesn't believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn't believe in fighting stupid wars. And - and what we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars.

  Benjamin Carson

  Stupid, Military, War

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.409

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• Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I realised that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good.

  Edward Snowden

  Impact, Government, World

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2014.

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• The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and America give the preference to the former, all other countries give it to the latter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Eye, College

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.109

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• I believe the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. That is what makes us different from those whom we fight. That is a source of our strength. That is why I prohibited torture. That is why I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. And that is why I have reaffirmed America's commitment to abide by the Geneva conventions. We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend.

  Barack Obama

  War, Believe, Commitment

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• Frankly, we doubt the veracity and seriousness of the United States in regard to achieving results that would be acceptable to both sides in Geneva.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  Doubt, United States, Would Be

  "Peace is Possible: The Politics of the Sermon on the Mount" by Franz Alt, (p. 94), 1985.

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