Sanctions Quotes

Hollywood people tend to think that because one is successful in one aspect of entertainment they can bring them into this particular world and make a success out of them. They ask people like me to be in a film with those people that they are kind of headlining and your name ends up behind them. If you do that, it sanctions the fact that these people come into this world and you think they are worthy of you sharing your time on screen with them. I don`t particularly think that. A month or so ago, someone called me about the 50 Cent movie and I`m like, `What are you calling me for?`. I don`t even need to read that because that`s not something I want to do. I like listening to 50 Cent and I can groove to his music but I don`t want to groove to him on screen, just yet. Maybe if he does five movies and he shows some talent. I mean how does he get to work with Jim Sheridan and I don`t. What is it about 50 Cent that makes Jim Sheridan say, `I`d really like to make a movie with him.`?

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.

the goal of the process will be to focus on accountability, compensation as called for in the resolutions protecting the families and eventually lifting of sanctions.

This is a violation of the sanctions regime, something that we deeply regret and are quite disappointed in, both in terms of the substance and the procedure that was followed by France.

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

(The E.U. has been pressuring Washington to impose similar sanctions, but the Bush administration wanted to give Karimov one last chance to renew cooperation.) The United States is going to look very closely at whether Karimov responds to our message, and, if not, we will draw conclusions, ... We`re not talking about six months. My purpose was not to drag out the process.

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one`s crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States` apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it`s imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully.

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

Creating these drivers would not be so bad if Apple sanctions a specific hardware configuration for a new x86 Mac,

Saddam`s goal ... is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq`s weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.