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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must approve the homage of reason rather than of blind-folded fear. Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences.

Thomas Jefferson

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

With the Khmer Rouge tribunal, [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD] is an important issue to be addressed, and TPO is one of the few NGO's that can take care of this.

Youk Chhang

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal, the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is usually great.

Abe Fortas

This tribunal was voted on by Russia and by all the members of the (U.N.) Security Council. It's a United Nations tribunal. It's not an American tribunal. It's not a NATO tribunal. And the Yugoslav authorities know that.

James Rubin

This is manipulation that undermines the Serbian government's efforts to complete cooperation with the Hague-based tribunal.

Srdjan Djuric

I have not been officially notified. I would not want to comment on anything. Complete responsibility for this lies on the international tribunal for former Yugoslavia.

Borislav Milosevic

We expect that the Government will follow through on its promises, and we will release a statement on the progress of cooperation between Serbia and the Tribunal once this deadline ends, in other words, at the beginning of May.

Anton Nikiforov

The chamber has had the benefit of a report by the tribunal doctor. As a result of that, it considers it inappropriate to continue today, and we will not sit tomorrow under the circumstances and until Monday.

Patrick Robinson

We need to have clear and transparent answers to show full cooperativeness towards the war crimes tribunal and enable access to our archives, which will be assessed as a great advance in cooperation.

Rasim Ljajic

Do I believe that people indicted by this tribunal will be tried? If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't be here, ... Yes, I believe they will be tried.

Louise Arbour

We at the tribunal have been constantly told that there is political will in the West to arrest Karadzic but I have to say openly that I don't believe in that.

Graham Blewitt

But there seems to be the impression that without Milosevic, Karadzic and Mladic in custody, the tribunal has somehow failed in its mission.

David Scheffer

We have investigated that back and forth and up and down, and there's just no evidence that he was involved in any prosecutable crimes during the period of jurisdiction for the tribunal. He looks clean.

Craig Etcheson

The crisis began with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, which offered voting statistics and automatically proclaimed the Liberal candidate.

Ricardo Maduro

We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo.

Louise Arbour

Of course, we can decide not to cooperate with The Hague tribunal but we have to be aware that the consequences would be catastrophic.

Boris Tadic

Our original understanding was that she would be able to come. She tells us now that she has a scheduling conflict and won't be able to make it. She did offer to write a statement that we could read on her behalf at the tribunal.

Peter Demott

They've sent the shot across the bow. We'll defend the decision of the tribunal.

Frances Kelly

That is one of the most important decisions of the National Council. I hope that it will stop all the accusations that Serbia and Montenegro is not cooperating with the Tribunal.

Rasim Ljajic

[The Transport and General Union (T&G) launched the employment tribunal case on behalf of about 5,000 workers.] Workers and their families should not have been kept waiting, ... This proves that workers must become priority creditors, and administrators should consult with unions before laying anyone off.

Adrian Ross

The tribunal seems to have taken on board our concerns about how the incident arose.

Roy Mcfarland

The principles of the common law, standing alone, in my opinion compel the exclusion of third-party torture evidence as unreliable, unfair, offensive to ordinary standards of humanity and decency and incompatible with the principles which should animate a tribunal seeking to administer justice.

Lord Bingham

There's a sense that we've obtained from various quarters in the Security Council that the notion of an international tribunal is not really practical. Certainly Indonesia is not convinced, and we get a sense that the rest of the Security Council will need to be convinced about the recommendations.

Marty Natalegawa

Because of the victims, the truth and justice I regret that the trial against Slobodan Milosevic at the UN tribunal has not been concluded.

Sulejman Tihic

The government must be convinced to support the organization and the functioning of an international tribunal to prosecute the Khmer Rouge.

Sam Rainsy

It is an outrage that the U.S. government put him before a tribunal that is essentially a court of conviction not of justice.

Michael Ratner

The tribunal provided the best possible treatment to Mr Milosevic.

Hans Holthuis

There are numerous precedents for the government approving deals where the competition tribunal had recommended against it.

Fernando Moraleda

If it a case of abuse of office then the proper thing to do is to appoint a tribunal not a criminal prosecution. We are going to fight it because the whole thing is politically motivated.

Mutula Kilonzo

If someone says they will deliver their scheme by the end of April there is no point in appointing a tribunal. But if the fund intends going into next year, then they will be forced to.

Mike Codron

That evidence is in our possession, but before we hand over the evidence we need to know to whom to hand it over, ... What kind of tribunal will be in place? And I understand that the statute for the tribunal is being finalized at this moment and may be published in the few days.

Ann Clwyd

I have very little confidence that any state court is an objective and impartial tribunal for deciding this case.

Tim Potts

Without the oversight of an unaffected and relatively neutral tribunal, the verdict in this case will always be in question, and opportunities to clean up the legislative and judicial processes in Pennsylvania will be lost.

Barry Kauffman

Nuremberg begat the Yugoslavia tribunal which begat the Rwanda tribunal which begat the special court for Sierra Leone and East Timor and now the permanent International Criminal Court.

Michael Scharf

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Otton Solis

The conduct of the proceedings was far from neutral and was not an impartial tribunal, which is what case law dictates.

Courtney Justice

I know that his family is against any autopsy there because they don't trust those doctors, just as he didn't trust those doctors and that tribunal.

Borislav Milosevic

The tribunal has nothing to be blamed for.

Christian Chartier

Because of the significance of the issue, both the NSWRU and ARU agree further action is warranted. After the problems in South Africa last year, we have put a lot of effort into redefining the Wallabies' disciplinary protocol. This latest incident has to be viewed as a serious matter, and automatically must go to a code-of-conduct tribunal conducted by an independent chairperson.

Gary Flowers

Creating an ad hoc African tribunal to try Habre would entail enormous political will, years of delay and costs of at least US $100 million.

Reed Brody

It really is shocking if the trustees have been negligent and are forced to appoint a tribunal whose cost will come off the surpluses.

Mike Codron

Cooperation with the tribunal brought international justice closer to a region which saw terrible atrocities. His death is a heavy blow to individual accountability for violations of International Humanitarian Law and to the rule of law.

Theodor Meron

They'll either face a military tribunal or nothing at all.

Andrew Mcbride

What the U.S. government should do is grant them freedom immediately, ... If they want to accuse them of something else, then accuse them, present evidence, and search for an impartial tribunal.

Ricardo Alarcon

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

Immanuel Kant

The only remaining recourse is to forward all the charges against Fujimori to an international tribunal.

Alejandro Toledo

The tribunal did not object to us doing this, also.

David Scheffer

The fact that they've seen fit to designate people for trial by military commission when the very constitutionality of the tribunal is up before the Supreme Court just evinces the most blatant disdain for the judicial branch and the separation of powers principle.

Barbara Olshansky

We handed them a complete file, which is a concrete evidence of cooperation with the tribunal and fulfillment of obligations that we took upon ourselves.

Rasim Ljajic

All responsibility for his death lies on the International Tribunal for former Yugoslavia.

Borislav Milosevic

I'd be pretty surprised now if anyone had any cause to go to the courts. I think the AFL have worked the tribunal to the stage where it almost becomes court-proof.

Eddie Mcguire

As a U.N. member state, we are obliged to fully cooperate with The Hague tribunal and have asked all state bodies for full cooperation.

Zoran Djindjic

Today, I have filed an official request to the tribunal to have the autopsy carried out in Moscow, having in mind his claims yesterday that he was being poisoned in the jail.

Zdenko Tomanovic