The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it.
I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.
I call George W. Bush a radical because he is undertaking a fundamental transformation of our Constitutional system of government and of our longstanding policies that have been accepted for literally generations. He thinks to concentrate unaccountable power in the Executive. He thinks you alter the laws so that, as Commander in Chief, he can determine, under what he says are wartime conditions, what the laws are, which laws should be enforced, and declare by fiat what our policy should be, even abrogating longstanding international treaties.
No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.
The reason the first three Star Wars movies were so terrific, and the second three sucked so bad, is actually very simple. The first three were about rebels, shooting guns and driving fast, and speaking with American accents. The second three were about politicians, discussing treaties and holding court, and speaking with British accents.
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.
Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.
You can't disrespect the love. You can't disrespect the peace treaty.
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
The EU treaties clearly promote an alliance of national states that, as far as possible, maintain their own responsibilities. There is no mention of a centralized state of Europe in the treaties. The EU Commission's politicking, however, is proof of a certain allergy against this principle of national states and national responsibilities.
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.
I hold that this must be said, for treaties only make sense when concluded by honor-loving peoples and honor-conscious governments. Germany wishes to establish honest relations with the peoples of neighboring countries. We have done this in the East, and I believe that not only Berlin but Warsaw as well will rejoice in the decontamination of the atmosphere brought about through our joint efforts.
When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.
If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.
