Human Rights Issues Quotes

American Jews are overwhelmingly liberal. By "liberal," I mean, basically, support for the rule of law, support for human rights, support for peace; and on all those counts - rule of law, human rights, peace - Israel's record has become indefensible.

For many Mexican human rights defenders, confronting the military does not end so well.

The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.

The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence.

I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United States, by the way, has some work to do on these issues. Human Rights Watch probably has a list of things they think we should be doing as a government.

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

What Russia really needs is not gay rights but human rights, and the rule of law.

So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

Americans shouldn't start a military attack, and they shouldn't bombard Iran, and they shouldn't interfere with the internal affairs of the country. And the Americans should pay more attention to the human right issues in Iran.

It is both wrong and short-sighted to believe that we can better protect our national security interests by ignoring or sidelining human rights.

Big global players like China need to do a better job of respecting human rights.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

We don't see a choice between securing growth and investment and raising human rights issues.

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private.

There's no point going to a country which is torturing people to ask them to stop if they can point out that the United States is doing it too. It enormously weakens the argument. Back in the early days of the Bush administration, PEN made a decision that we would try and make human rights issues and civil rights issues in this country part of the priority, and not just international issues, which had more or less been the priority up until then.

The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.

How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.

There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.

The situation of any leader in the Middle East is not easy.

As we consider the shared values of the U.S. and India, due attention to the fundamental human right of religious freedom is of the utmost importance.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.