International Law Quotes - Page 3

• I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Law, Attention

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire”, p.46, Penguin UK

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• I stress that we unambiguously support strengthening the non-proliferation regime, without any exceptions, on the basis of international law.

  Vladimir Putin

  Stress, Law, Support

  Annual Address to the Federal Assembly, en.kremlin.ru. May 10, 2006.

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• In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.

  Vladimir Putin

  Running, Military, Law

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.

  Saeb Erekat

  Mean, Law, Goal

  "Palestinian Negotiator On Netanyahu And A Palestinian State". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 20, 2015.

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• It is only up to the Syrian people living in Syria to determine who, how and based on what principles should rule their country, and any external advice would be absolutely inappropriate, harmful and against international law.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Law, People

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• There had been a free and open election in Haiti in the early 1990s and president Jean-Bertrand Aristide won, a populist priest. A few months later came the expected military coup - a very vicious military junta took over, of which the United States was passively supportive. Not openly, of course, but Haitians started to flee from the terror and were sent back and on towards Guantanamo Bay. Of course, that is against International Law. But the United States pretended that they were "economic refugees."

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Law, President

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• If we want to expect something from this [Barack Obama] administration, it is not to be weak, to be strong to say that "we don't have evidence," that "we have to obey the international law", that "we have to go back to the Security Council and the United Nations".

  Bashar al-Assad

  Strong, Law, Want

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• According to international law, in order to use force, we need to feel, we need good evidence that we are under imminent threat of actual attack. And I think we need to stand up for international law.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Order, Law

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil liberties and human rights and international law and then talking about peace to young people. That's a double standard.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Talking, Law

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I am the president of 146 million Russians. I have to represent their interests. We are willing to settle this without any conflicts and to search for compromises on the basis of international law.

  Vladimir Putin

  Law, President, Compromise

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents; fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual respect, parity, etc., but we all know that this is only wishful thinking and fantasy.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Thinking, Law

  The Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2016.

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• We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.

  Jill Stein

  Law, Sides, Needs

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The United States believes that every nation should respect international law, including in the South China Sea.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Law, Sea

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• As president, I will instruct the Department of Justice to create a joint task force throughout the United States to work together with federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities and international law enforcement to crush this still-developing area of crime.

  Donald Trump

  Crush, Law, Justice

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3,2016.

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• Instead of ending U.S. military aid to the 23rd wealthiest country to use for its consistent violations of international law and human rights, we see the Obama administration escalating the annual amount of aid, so that Israel will now start each year with almost $4 billion, with $3.8 billion a year of military aid coming from our tax money to support its military, without any restrictions on how it makes - how it uses that money, what weapons in the U.S. it's able to buy.

  Phyllis Bennis

  Country, Military, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a word created in the wake of the Shoah in Europe to describe what happens when a people are targeted by a government for extermination, as were the Jews of Europe, and which is the term used in the most important international law related to concerned Indigenous Peoples, as the only international human rights law that pertains specifically to collectivities of people rather than individuals.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Rights, Government, Europe

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You can see our media appearances as well as connect to Our Power to the People Agenda, Our Green New Deal, our plan to abolish student debt and our plan to actually create a whole new foreign policy based on international law and human rights.

  Jill Stein

  Media, Law, Rights

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• As a person committed to human rights and international law and the right of self-determination, I would like to see the occupation end. And then it is up to the Palestinians themselves to decide what they want.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Determination, Rights, Self

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We as a human family are on this train that is taking us into more and more war and more and more abuse of human rights where a lot of civilians are being killed and where human rights and international law are being set aside by America and NATO.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Law, America

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law.

  Edward Said

  Determination, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.

  Edward Said

  Terrible Events, Law, Community

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Palestine is occupied land, and under international law, the Palestinians have the legal right to resist this occupation by any and all means. This may make busses, restaurants, discos-where Israeli military congregate, lawful targets.

  Enver Masud

  Military, Islamic, Mean

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• First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

  George W. Norris

  War, Rights, Law

  George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.194, U of Nebraska Press

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• It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn't be reelected.

  Jimmy Carter

  Suicidal, Rights, Israel

  "Jimmy Carter takes on Israel’s Apartheid Policies and the Pro-Israeli Lobby in the US". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2006.

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• The real problem, if you look at how, for example, Hezbollah got a lot of missiles that are a grave threat to Israel, it's not because they were legal, it's not because somehow that was authorized under international law; it was because there was insufficient intelligence or capacity to stop those shipments.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Israel, Law

  Press Conference by the President, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 15, 2015.

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