John Layfield Quotes

Sanctions are a bad idea.

From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States.

The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.

The sanctions which the West introduced against Russia seriously affect us.

I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.

The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there.

For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.

Unilateral sanctions only make foreign rivals stronger and taint us as unreliable suppliers.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile, to appease its hunger.

Countries often prioritise economic interests over human rights - hence all the kowtowing to China.

People who live in hermit states like North Korea, Burma, and Cuba already suffer from global isolation. Fed on a diet of propaganda, they don't know what's happening inside their borders or outside of them. By increasing their seclusion, sanctions make it easier for dictators to blame external enemies for a country's suffering.

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You're sanctioning medicine for the people.

I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba - but it is undoubtedly the most self-defeating.

Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.