Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

Embargo is not war.

For Italy, sanctions are never an end; they are an instrument that must be overcome as soon as possible.

So, I think that for the authorities to say now that calling for sanctions will prevent dialogue is a ploy to stop us from supporting sanctions. It has to be the other way around: dialogue first, then we stop our call for sanctions, because sanctions make people understand that you cannot exercise repression and at the same time expect international support.

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

You may meet commercial restriction with commercial restriction, but you cannot safely confront premeditated insult and injury with commercial restrictions alone.

Sanctions will not produce capitulation.

We should have imposed new sanctions in 2013 and maintained the strength of our negotiating position, which is what brought Iran to the table in the first place.

I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.

During the 1996 Forum election my election agent, John Dobson, told me that at some stage down the line we were going to have to talk to the IRA and that I was the man to do it. And my reaction was not printable!

We are convinced that the only way to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue is through negotiations.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

It is absolutely unacceptable to talk to Russia - or anyone for that matter - in the language of ultimatums and coercive measures.

Improvising political dialogue is not easy.

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

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

Mr. President, we need to be strong and firm, but that doesn't mean you have to commit political suicide.

Diplomacy, when matched by force, can achieve our objectives.

I am willing to go anywhere. Israel will be surprised to hear that I am willing to go to the Knesset itself and negotiate with them.