International Quotes - Page 40

• Busy people begrudge the days being short.
  I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

  Stanley Kubrick

  People, Sap, Fluoride

  7 Copy quote

• Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.

  Anita Roddick

  Country, Children, Mean

  19 Copy quote

• It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States.

  Barack Obama

  United States, Population, Cost

  4 Copy quote

• Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future, right wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

  Gus Van Sant

  Fate, Ideas, Hysteria

  "Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S". Book by Susan C. Boyd, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

  Cary Fowler

  Diversity, Community, Littles

  "Of Pandas and Peas: Saving the Diversity Within Species" by Cary Fowler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

  Rick Larsen

  Leadership, Nature, Science

  "America Is Losing The Competition For The Arctic". Interview with Deb Reichmann, www.businessinsider.com. January 01, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Spring, Community, Watches

  Anne-Marie Slaughter @SlaughterAM, twitter.com. February 24, 2011.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Color, Moral Leadership, Rocks

  31 Copy quote

• Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have the possibility of peacefully resolving a major threat to regional and international security. Without a deal, we risk even more war in the Middle East and other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs, threatening a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Race

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything we've done has been designed to make sure that we address that number one priority. That's what the sanctions regime was all about. That's how we were able to mobilize the international community, including some folks that we are not particularly close to, to abide by these sanctions. That's how these crippling sanctions came about, was because we [USA] were able to gain global consensus that Iran having a nuclear weapon would be a problem for everybody.

  Barack Obama

  Numbers, Iran, Usa

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Iran will for sure have pledged to the international community that it will not develop a nuclear weapon, and now will be subject to an additional protocol, a more vigorous inspection and monitoring regime that lasts in perpetuity.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Community, Nuclear

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, to take a movie and travel the world and go and work with these cultures and an international cast and have this spy thriller that's not just about character but also action and suspense, they're very challenging films as a producer to make, creating stories, creating set pieces that serve this character [Ethan Hunt].

  Tom Cruise

  Character, Creating, Challenges

  5 Copy quote

• I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international plutocracy eliminating the American middle class while inadvertently creating a bourgeoisie in India, China, etc. I do agree that Soros's role is paradoxical, but if all billionaires (or even a few more) were like Soros, the dialectic would give us global social democracy PDQ.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Creating, Class, Giving

  Source: www.newyorker.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Struggle, Stupidity

  Source: www.usatoday.com

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• America was not interventionist enough, which, of course, did mean a bit of a breach with old comrades on the left. I felt the international left in the countries concerned took the same position as I did. So, in my view, it's the left that's become reactionary and isolationist and parochial.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Mean, Views

  Source: www.npr.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idea of the industrial fishing affects everyone. Those factory ships play this game of hit and run with the international fishing limits, and somebody said it's like hunting squirrels with a bulldozer. They pull everything in and they are only looking for certain types of fish and everything else dies and they just throw it back. It's like chumming.

  Robin Williams

  Running, Hunting, Squirrels

  9 Copy quote

• If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.

  Rainn Wilson

  Thinking, Broken, President

  Source: bigthink.com

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• When it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth. The technical sector is the backbone of the American economy, and if we start engaging in these kind of behaviors, in these kind of attacks, we're setting a standard, we're creating a new international norm of behavior that says this is what nations do. This is what developed nations do.

  Edward Snowden

  Creating, Warfare, Earth

  Source: www.pbs.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The internet exchange is sort of the core points where all of the international cables come together, where all of the internet service providers come together, and they trade lines with each other. These are priority one targets for any sort of espionage agency, because they provide access to so many people's communications.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Agency, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Keys, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this is a global problem. We can't just fix it in the United States, because there are other countries that don't follow U.S. laws. We have to create international standards that say that cyber attacks should only ever occur when it is absolutely necessary.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Cyber Attacks, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested, like the laws of biology and physics, the intelligent design of a Divine Creator.

  Daniel Walker Howe

  Intelligent, Law, Design

  4 Copy quote

• Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mafia, Doe, Affair

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Interventions”, p.198, City Lights Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.

  Joyce Giraud

  Queens, World, Kindergarten

  5 Copy quote