“The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.” NormalRelationTradeChinaPermanentAgreementPartnershipTransPacificContinuationTrade AgreementsNafta Author:Bernie Sanders
“We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.” ViolenceEconomicRelationWelcomeAgreementRejectsProvisionTreatiesContainingPlunderClauses Author:Vladimir Lenin
“The internet has not granted us more control in relation to the record company because we're still bound by an agreement with them not to release our music without their consent. But they generally let us do what we want, anyway, so it doesn't matter who's officially in control.” WantStillsMatterCompanyRecordsInternetRelationBoundsReleaseGrantedAgreementConsentRecord Companies Author:Rivers Cuomo
“During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, 'In opening the economy of China, the agreement will create unprecedented opportunities for American farmers, workers and companies to compete successfully in China's market. WRONG: Our trade deficit with China has increased from $83 billion in 2001 to a record breaking $342 billion in 2014.” SaidOpportunityPresidentCompanyEconomyRecordsNormalRelationTradeBillsClintonWorkersChinaBillionsDebateOpeningPermanentAgreementFarmersDeficitUnprecedentedPresident Bill ClintonRecords Breaking Author:Bernie Sanders
“Mohammed bin Salman is deputy Crown Prince, but this is not so important. He is a very active statesman, we have really warm relations. This is a person who knows what he wants and can achieve his goals. At the same time I consider him to be a reliable partner with whom one can negotiate and be sure that agreements with him will be implemented.” KnowsWantPersonsImportantGoalAchieveRelationWarmActivePartnersAgreementCrownsStatesmenDeputies Author:Vladimir Putin
“Our bilateral relations and our agreement [between Turkey and America] on the extradition of criminals should dominate and precede actually any inclusion into any list.” ShouldAmericaRelationCriminalsListsAgreementInclusionTurkeys Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.” YearsOrderWifeOne ThingCoupleHusbandSickRelationEnterpriseAgreementDivisionFamily LifeHusband And WifeUndertakings Book:The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide Source: The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide
“By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government into the most sensitive areas of human contractual relations-agreements for personal services. In so doing, constitutional interpretations of long standing are being swept aside in favor of tortuous rationalizations which studiously ignore the constitutionally-forbidden imposition of involuntary servitude on citizens” HumansLongGovernmentCitizensAreasStandingRelationBillsFavorsCivil RightsSensitiveAgreementInterpretationForbiddenProposalServitudeInvoluntaryImpositionAccommodations Author:Strom Thurmond
“[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.” MenIdeasStatesGovernmentSchoolInfluenceTheoryFunctionRelationHistoricalObviousAgreementContractsThinker Author:Charles Edward Merriam