(475 quotes found)
“We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.”
Sam Brownback
“We are categorically against using the thesis of human rights as a pretext to prevent Russia from restoring order in the region,”
Vladimir Putin
“I am convinced that today terrorism poses the main threat to human rights and freedoms as well as to the sustainable development of states and people,”
“Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.”
“No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.”
“It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.”
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
“It violates constitutional rights, ... It violates human rights. It violates international law. And it's fundamentally flawed because it's not based on science.”
Usher
“He has no damaging reputation involving human rights.”
Usman Hamid
“We have always been opposed to politicizing the human rights question, ... Practice has proved that confrontation cannot solve the problem.”
Tang Jiaxuan
“Every country should choose its own way to protect human rights according to its national situation,”