“In an election like this one [in 2016], not only are voters dissatisfied, but where the foundations of our economy, our democracy, our ecosystem, and international war and peace are really crumbling and are really at grave risk for failing in many ways, we need desperately to have an honest public conversation about both the track record of where we've been, what are the critical problems we are facing and what it will take to solve them.” WayNeedsWarProblemEconomyDemocracyRecordsFailingRiskHonestConversationElectionFoundationInternationalTrackSolveCriticalGravesVotersEcosystemsDissatisfiedCrumblingTrack Record Author:Jill Stein
“You know, terrorism in Afghanistan had everything to do with the support for the mujahidin by Saudi Arabia and by the CIA that sought to create an international religious extremist group to fight the Soviet Union.” KnowsFightingReligiousSupportGroupsUnionsInternationalTerrorismAfghanistanSovietSoviet UnionCiaExtremistArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisExtremist Groups Author:Jill Stein
“I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights.” ThinkingHumansPlayLawRolesRightsInternationalHuman RightsCriticalSpectrumInternational Law Author:Jill Stein
“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.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsUseLawOrderForceEvidenceThreatInternationalInternational Law Author:Jill Stein
“I would apply international law and I think we need to be a force for international law.” ThinkingNeedsLawForceInternationalInternational Law Author:Jill Stein
“We helped generate that international law coming out of a very difficult and hard-won experiences in the First and Second World War. And I think we need to abide by that experience and our good judgment coming out of these catastrophes. We need to support that.” ThinkingWorldNeedsFirstsWarHardLawDifficultSupportJudgmentInternationalWar Of The WorldsComing OutCatastropheSecond World WarInternational LawGood Judgment Author:Jill Stein
“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.” NeedsUseLawForceSidesUnderstoodInternationalDiplomacyInternational Law Author:Jill Stein
“I'm very careful not to isolate Israel on this but to make this part of a transformed foreign policy where we apply the same standards across the board. So it's not just Israel. It's also Saudi Arabia, it's also Egypt. It's where there are massive and systemic violations of human rights and international law.” HumansLawRightsPolicyStandardsInternationalHuman RightsCarefulIsraelBoardsMassiveTransformedForeign PolicyEgyptViolationArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisInternational LawViolation Of Human Rights Author:Jill Stein
“I was, it was very high. Especially with international (box office), we did something that I didn't think this movie ["2012"] would do. I was very happy.” ThinkingOfficeInternationalBoxesVery HappyBox Office Author:Roland Emmerich
“Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.” PeoplePartyCitiesInternationalTouristsHollandAmsterdam Author:Eddy de Clercq
“There are so many international musical connections here, in Amsterdam. And some of them are amazingly successful.” SuccessfulConnectionsMusicalInternationalAmsterdam Author:Eddy de Clercq
“A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.” DoneProcessCommunityDealsCommitmentRemainsInternationalAfghanistanJuryInternational CommunityRebuilding Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I think I sort of realized it was an international thing when we went to South Korea for The Fast [and the Furious] 6 premiere. We knew nothing about South Korea, and we came through the sliding doors [at the airport] with my luggage and there were like 60 fans with Luketeer banners: "We're your Korea Luketeers." It was like, wow, this is amazing.” ThinkingDoorsFansSouthInternationalWowAirportsKoreaFuriousBannerLuggagePremieresSouth KoreaSliding Doors Author:Luke Evans
“The Paris climate conference in December, 2015 was a recognition that countries bring their climate policies to international meetings rather than create them during the negotiations (much less do they receive orders from the international community and then go home and implement them).” CountryHomeOrderCommunityPolicyMeetingsClimateInternationalRecognitionParisNegotiationConferencesDecemberInternational Community Author:Dale Jamieson
“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.” YearsHumansCountryUseAbleLawSupportRightsMilitaryAmountTaxesWeaponsInternationalHuman RightsIsraelAidsBillionsAdministrationConsistentRestrictionViolationAnnualsInternational LawEscalating Author:Phyllis Bennis
“We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth.” NeedsDoneGovernmentAmericaTermCompanySupportDevelopmentOrganizationSafetyTradeInternationalContributionDefenceDiplomaticNorth America Author:Chris Alexander
“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.” PeopleHumansImportantGovernmentHappensLawUsedIndividualTermRightsEuropeConcernedImportanceInternationalHuman RightsJewRelatedGenocideIndigenousAccusationInternational LawIndigenous PeopleExterminationCollectivity Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.” IfsBelieveWarTogetherPoliticalInterestInternationalTerrorAbsenceWorking TogetherSincereCooperationStakesWar On TerrorInternational Cooperation Author:Hamid Karzai
“Katie Paterson introduced the project [ Future Library ] to a handful of writers at a very fine international literary festival in Denmark at the Louisiana Museum, I sent her an e-mail when I got back to Iceland, saying, "It's a wonderful project.” WonderfulFineProjectsLibraryInternationalMuseumsMailFestivalsHandfulLouisianaKatieDenmarkIceland Author:Sjon
“Ajamu Baraka is a human rights advocate and an international human rights advocate, who's been defending racial justice, economic justice, worker justice, indigenous justice, and justice for black and brown people all over the world, and in the United States has been helping to lead the charge against the death penalty here, and is an extremely eloquent and empowering person. And one of the great things about running with him is that we speak to all of America.” PeopleWorldHumansPersonsHas BeensStatesHelpingRunningAmericaSpeakBlackJusticeUnitedUnited StatesRightsEconomicWorkersInternationalHuman RightsGreat ThingsEmpoweringBrownPenaltiesIndigenousDeath PenaltyEloquentRacial JusticeEconomic JusticeAgainst Death Penalty Author:Jill Stein
“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.” PeopleHumansWellsWholeLawDealsRightsPlansMediaPolicyStudentsGreenInternationalHuman RightsAppearanceDebtAgendasForeign PolicyAbolishInternational LawNew Deal Author:Jill Stein
“We don't supply a hundred billion dollars worth of weapons to the war criminals in Saudi Arabia nor do we supply eight million dollars a day to the Israeli army that is also violating international law and human rights.” HumansWarLawMillionsRightsWeaponsHundredArmyDollarsInternationalHuman RightsEightCriminalsBillionsIsraeliMillion DollarsArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisInternational LawIsraeli Army Author:Jill Stein
“Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.” StillsCountryMatterInternationalOther CountriesTreaties Author:Indira Gandhi
“The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did.” DoeDoneDecisionSituationPolicyNormalInternationalPainfulOpeningVietnamEmbassySaigonHanoi Author:Indira Gandhi
“Now with the international space station generating a bunch of video, and Space X and other companies pursuing private space flight, I think it's on all of our radars much more than it has been since the moonshots. The science of filmmaking is making these visions possible now.” ThinkingHas BeensSpaceCompanyVisionInternationalVideoBunchFlightStationsFilmmakingRadarSpace FlightInternational Space Station Author:Jon Spaihts
“The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.” GovernmentCommunityOpinionForeverAuthorityInternationalIsraelObligationPalestinianInternational CommunityHamasBoycott Author:Moshe Katsav
“OPEC production went from 30 million barrels a day to 33 million. They flooded the market, and it's lost them a lot of money. Look at the Saudis: they just floated a $17.5 billion debt offering, they earlier borrowed $10 billion from a group of international banks; they're selling part of Aramco - they're desperate for money.” LooksLostMillionsGroupsInternationalProductionsDebtBillionsSellingDesperateOfferingLots Of MoneyBorrowedSaudisBarrelsOpec Author:Gary Shilling
“Whenever I visit an industrialized nation that isn't the United States, it immediately becomes apparent how much more educated and informed and aware of international events their citizens are compared to Americans.” StatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesEventsCitizensInternationalEducated Author:Jim Goad
“I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.” PeopleThinkingWould BeCommunityInternationalAlliesDescentInternational Community Author:Gerald Horne
“It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.” UniversalPressureInternationalSecureReleaseHelpfulRegimes Author:Akbar Ganji
“I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard of Vietnam until I was in the merchant marines in constitution square in Athens, and I picked up the New York Herald or the International Herald Tribune and there was my first introduction of the word Vietnam.” FirstsWarHeardNew YorkConversationConstitutionInternationalSquaresVietnamMarineIntroductionArrestedMerchantsAthensMerchant Marine Author:Bill Ayers
“International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.” IfsMayHurtDecisionTakenInternationalSummitOrganisation Author:Narendra Modi
“It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon.” WorldInternationalPopulationPhenomenonUnemployedGreat Depression Author:Noam Chomsky
“This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.” WarHandsClassEconomicInternationalScalesEconomic Systems Author:Noam Chomsky
“Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth.” YearsWarHardTodayGivenDrugTenYears AgoInternationalMythAidsWar On DrugsPretextColombiaAmnestyAmnesty International Author:Noam Chomsky
“With Hillary Clinton as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a business transaction. I also know that our armed forces will not become an instrument of torture and they will not be engaged in murder or carry out other illegal activities.” KnowsForceActivityRelationMurderInstrumentsClintonInternationalChiefsEngagedTortureIllegalCommandersInternational RelationsTransactionsArmed ForcesCommander In ChiefIllegal Activities Author:John R. Allen
“We had global warming between 1940 and 1998. Since then, we haven't had a rise in temperature. That doesn't mean we don't have a problem. If that problem is going to be solved, it ought to be solved by an international treaty.” IfsMeanProblemHavensOughtInternationalGlobal WarmingTemperatureTreaties Author:Chuck Grassley
“Although we refer to the International Criminal Court, the real problem is the prosecutor, because it's the prosecutor who decides who to investigate and what cases to bring. This court fundamentally embodied a potential for abuse of governmental power that I felt was inconsistent with being a free person - and [it was] inconsistent for a free country like the United States to subscribe to it.” PersonsRealCountryStatesProblemFeltUnitedCasesUnited StatesAbuseCourtInternationalCriminalsReal ProblemsInconsistentProsecutorFree CountryMental Power Author:John Bolton
“The International Criminal Court uses a prosecution-only approach. And by putting their fate in the hands of outsiders, countries are really dodging responsibility for actions taken in the name of that country, in the name of the people in that country, by the people of that country themselves. That is, I think, fundamentally the wrong direction to go in.” PeopleThinkingCountryUseHandsActionNamesResponsibilityTakenFateApproachCourtInternationalCriminalsOutsidersProsecutionWrong Direction Author:John Bolton
“I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes.” ThinkingWarInterestSecurityCrimeCourtThreatInternationalCriminalsEnormousDiscretionProsecutorWar Crimes Author:John Bolton
“In order to fight militarism under Hillary Clinton or under Donald Trump, it's very important that we cast a vote on behalf of peace and on international - and a policy based on international law and human rights.” HumansImportantLawOrderFightingRightsPolicyTrumpVoteClintonInternationalHuman RightsCastsBehalfInternational LawMilitarism Author:Jill Stein
“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.” WantHumansPersonsEndsSelfLawRightsDeterminationInternationalHuman RightsCommittedOccupationSelf DeterminationPalestinianInternational Law Author:Mairead Corrigan
“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.” HumansWarAmericaLawRightsAbuseTrainInternationalHuman RightsCiviliansNatoInternational LawHuman Family Author:Mairead Corrigan
“Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.” HumansWarLawRightsKillingInternationalHuman RightsSettingSettingsAgendasOccupationInternational Law Author:Mairead Corrigan
“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.” PeopleShouldHumansWarStatesLawYoungTalkingLibertyRightsStandardsInternationalHuman RightsDepartmentContinuingNobelCivil LibertiesDouble StandardInternational Law Author:Mairead Corrigan
“If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision in the first few weeks in its tenure in office to abnegate the Kyoto treaties that set our international perception into a nose-dive. People around the world looked on in amazement as the biggest part of the problem decided it wasn't going to make any effort to help with the solution.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsLooksLongHelpingProblemDecisionEffortWeekOfficePerceptionSolutionsDecidedInternationalIraqAround The WorldAdministrationDataNosesTreatiesAmazementTenureKyotoPolling Author:Bill McKibben
“We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise references to global warming from official documents, to try to undermine international conferences that work on environmental issues, and on and on and on.” TryingEffortIssuesTakenProgramEnvironmentalInternationalOfficialsGlobal WarmingDocumentsConferencesTreatiesKyotoEnvironmental Issues Author:Bill McKibben
“Policies that engage us again in the international fight for real climate protection.” RealFightingPolicyClimateInternationalProtection Author:Bill McKibben