Treaty Quotes

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The fence is moveable. We moved a fence that we had with Egypt after we signed the peace treaty with them. We moved the fence with Jordan and Lebanon.

- Silvan Shalom

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn`t free; we don`t really think through what we`ll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we`re still occupying. There`s chaos and torture and finally an outcry.

- Sarah Vowell

The Law of the Sea Treaty created a supranational organization to regulate what is done with and under the international seabeds.

- Frank Gaffney

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

- Frank Gaffney

It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.

- Hans Frank

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?

- Henry Cabot Lodge

The ratification of this treaty is a true landmark for environmental health, ... By targeting an entire class of chemicals for global phaseout, it moves us a giant step forward in protecting people and the planet.

- Monica Moore

He has paid all the applicable taxes, including U.S. capital gains taxes, ... There is a treaty. So while Jon Corzine is paying taxes here, Japanese investors who are investing in the U.S. are paying their taxes in Japan. And apparently the leadership in both countries felt there was a significant public policy reason to have that regime.

- Tom Shea

Hurricane Katrina, the Mother Earthers say, is the result of the failed environmental policies of the Bush administration. This disaster is because the United States has not agreed to abide by the Kyoto Treaty protocols. According to those who worship the spinning dirt at the altar of Kyoto, their god, the environment, has exacted justice through Hurricane Katrina.

- Scott Thomas

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

- Peter Mandelson

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

- Sitting Bull

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

- Sitting Bull

(Pregnancy didn't occur as easily as they'd hoped, and the couple turned to adoption. Having decided to adopt a Guatemalan child, their paperwork was ready to go. Problems developed when that country's government had to change some procedures to be in compliance with the Hague Treaty, and those changes led to) an almost total shutdown of the adoptions, ... And so, thinking that we had no time to lose, we went '˜country shopping.' One of the few options open to us, since we are over 40, was Nepal.

- Sarah Hall

Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn`t one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

- Akhil Tripathi

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

- Al Edwards

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

- Al Trout

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

- Alberto Madrigal

Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.

- Alda Piliszek

We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.

- Alexandre Pasini

America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

- Allama Iqbal

Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

- Allan Walsh

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.

- Allan Walsh

All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.

- Allan Walsh

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

- Amy Uriell

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

- Amy Zeihen

The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren`t the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration`s policy on global warming is dead wrong.

- Andrew Aran

The lobby there, ... is the sort of place where you walk in and you feel like you`re there to sign a treaty.

- Anthony Abbate

Judicial action might simply encourage congressmen to run to court any time they disagreed with presidential action (on a treaty or other foreign relations issue) or were on the losing end of a piece of legislation,

- Art Gonzalez

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

- Omar Torrijos Herrera

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

- Plato