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There is probably anywhere between 8,000 to 10,000 kidnap and ransom situations globally on an annual basis.

Mark Hall
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Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil.

H. L. Mencken
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I am sure that Ransom Clark has a great-great-great-great-granddaughter somewhere who has a truckload of his mementos. I am bound to find them if I don't give up. You have to wonder what I'd find out about him if I had his mementos.

Frank Laumer
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The Iranian government and police have not paid any ransom to the captors. They were released through negotiations.

Mehdi Ahmadi
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Japanese have a record of giving into terrorist demands with ransom money. It's still open season on international businessmen and diplomats.

John Neuffer
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There will be no ransom. The only kind of negotiations will be for the unconditional release of the hostages.

Roberto Tiglao
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RANSOM, n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can belong to the buyer. The most unprofitable of investments.

Ambrose Bierce
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The conventional wisdom was, people were fairly safe if they were not involved in the drug trade. But once we learned people were being kidnapped for ransom, and given the numbers involved, we thought it important to notice that.

Michael Yoder
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We can't help but feel this is a hold-to-ransom rather than a goodwill gesture.

Greg Day
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With a demand for a payment of a very, very large ransom.

Douglas Wood
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WFP was not asked for ransom.

Rene Mcguffin
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They have caused havoc. They do basically as they please. They arrest people, they torture people, they execute people, they detain people, they negotiate ransom and they do that with impunity.

John Pace
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What I can't figure out is why anyone would steal it. They can't sell it on eBay, it's not fit to eat, there was no ransom note and the police put its value at only $25 (14 pounds) on their report.

Bob Bernstein
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The most important thing here is that the government will stick to its policy of no ransom payments, ... There will be no negotiation or ransom with these kidnappers. By doing that we believe we will stop their motivation from some groups there in the south to do the same thing.

Edilberto Adan
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