Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama lo... JUSTIN SANE A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would des... WILLIAM KIRBY Instead, the member states should seek consensus through dialogue and consultation and in accordance... LI ZHAOXING The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military ... ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relati... HERMAN KAHN I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particular... ZHANG ZHIDONG The journey of life is much about connections! One thing connects with another to bring another thin... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruc... JOSE MARIA AZNAR We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruc... JOSE AZNAR And yet wherever there exists the display of power there is politics, and in women's relations with ... SALLY KEMPTON What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some wa... MEG WHITMAN My stance has consistently been that the firmer and closer that U.S.-Japan relations are, the more p... JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI I have had extremely good relations with the United States and with both parties (Republicans and De... JUAN MANUEL SANTOS The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite. VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY Our democratic system, national identity, and international space must be respected. Any forms of su... TSAI ING-WEN I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it'... WES BOYD The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twiste... OCTAVIO PAZ God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family. MARGARET CLARKSON Why be an ostrich? MARGARET MITCHELL As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign... J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every pers... POPE BENEDICT XVI Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for ... OMAR BONGO Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israe... DAVID LIMBAUGH Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified d... PANKAJ MISHRA The fierce battles between New Democrat centrists and old-style liberals that defined the Democratic... NINA EASTON During the last three years, Schroeder has revived Germany's close relations with France in ways tha... CHARLES GRANT It is regrettable that such language should come from the ambassador of a great power who is suppose... MAHDI DAKHLALLAH We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in toda... VLADIMIR PUTIN Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manif... NOREENA HERTZ We believe that we should not give up to bullying in international relations. MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international re... J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet whe... CHANAKYA Now that the Liberal party has returned to power after nearly a decade of Stephen Harper's Conse... TERRY GLAVIN This is a vote that is required if we are going to enjoy all of the WTO trade advantages with a new ... PHIL CRANE In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indi... EVELYN UNDERHILL I don't want to link this outrageous terrorist attack with the overall relations with Jordan. MOSHE FOGEL not versed in international relations and not too much interested in them either. LAWRENCE WILKERSON The time has come for President Obama to formally rescind his order to close the detention facility ... JASON CHAFFETZ Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare... MARGARET MITCHELL If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: 'fair,' leveled and social... CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Repub... MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not ... BERTRAND RUSSELL A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not... BERTRAND RUSSELL We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was... DANIEL YERGIN We are sure the upshot of her visit will be not only a narrowing of our positions on many internatio... IGOR IVANOV What matter in international relations now are national interests and economic prowess, WEN JIABAO Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Commun... REBECCA MACKINNON Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conf... TARIQ RAMADAN Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL I've served on the International Relations Committee. SAM BROWNBACK I don't believe in ideology in international relations. SERGEI LAVROV I have been talking to lots of people today, though, inside and outside of Microsoft. In every insta... ROBERT SCOBLE In January of 2009, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay within ... MICHAEL PATERNITI Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationali... GUNNAR MYRDAL Both groups have the constitutional right to public right of ways and to free speech. But one group'... STEVE SMITSON Despite the victory of democratic forces in Yugoslavia and its opening up to the world, the internat... GEORGE ROBERTSON The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embat... CHUCK TODD Our relations with the various Indian tribes continue to be of a pacific character. JAMES K. POLK These assurances should make possible a much more constructive relationship between the United Kingd... ROBIN COOK He was one of those people in New York who was purported to "know everybody". "Knowing everybody" is... SIRI HUSTVEDT We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than b... MAHMOUD ABBAS The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, m... NOAM CHOMSKY Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations. MOHAMED ELBARADEI Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare... MARCO RUBIO Kissinger celebrants inevitably point to two things to justify their admiration: an opening to China... GREG GRANDIN The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and t... KARL MARX Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fi... KARL MARX In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel ... TOM BROKAW Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But... GARY BAUER When the Obama administration announced its 'reset' of relations with Russia in 2009, Americ... JOHN BARRASSO Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in sc... HANS EYSENCK We have called for the closure of the US embassy and the severance of relations with the Americans b... FATAHI KHALIL In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances,... SALMAN KHURSHID Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch up... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and... SHAUKAT AZIZ What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, ... MEG WHITMAN During Black History Month, I'm reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil right... THOMAS E. PEREZ A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of ch... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT In international relations, you don't base your work on hope. FEDERICA MOGHERINI Certain relations are like bubbles, they look so beautiful but the moment you touch them to feel goo... NEHA KOTHARI Every WTO member country has the right to stop dealing with a member country for reasons related to ... SAUDI ARABIA With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Ro... DAVID LIMBAUGH Koizumi wants to improve relations with Beijing and Seoul on the base of the two countries' tacit co... JIN XIDE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international r... SHIRLEY TEMPLE The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It'... JUDITH JAMISON When diplomacy ends, War begins. ADOLF HITLER Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our re... LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI My own agenda is going to be followed, and that agenda is to maintain very good relations with the i... NAJIB MIKATI Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but ... VIRGINIA WOOLF I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doe... CONDOLEEZZA RICE Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse... MICHAEL MCCAUL Lawmakers must not forget their oaths and disregard the administration's infringement of average Ame... CAROLINE FREDRICKSON The mainland will oppose strongly Chen's move, which tries to reverse historical trend. The internat... YU KELI Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his econo... CAMILLE PAGLIA The artificial crises created in the past have not had a good impact on our national and internation... MOHAMMAD KHATAMI The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen onl... VLADIMIR PUTIN During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primaril... HIDEKI TOJO
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