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Quotes About Territory

I'd say I'm a true conservative. Liberals have got a monopoly on protecting the environment, or all the cool technology, and I don't think we should cede that territory.
~ Thomas Massie
We want to be sure that both NATO's territory and NATO soldiers are well protected. We need to make sure that there is the air defense and the air support for these forces in case that is necessary.
~ Kersti Kaljulaid
A melting Arctic creates a more permissive environment for Russia and China to seize territory.
~ Matt Gaetz
My generation, the so-called post-'90s generation that came of age after the territory was returned to China, would have the most to lose if Hong Kong were to become like just another mainland Chinese city, where information is not freely shared and the rule of law is ignored.
~ Joshua Wong
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
~ Seamus Heaney
Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.
~ Henry Kissinger
The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.
~ Steven Spielberg
We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then.
~ Ehud Olmert
The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.
~ Shinzo Abe
It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
~ David Blunkett
There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places.
~ Sean Booth
Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.
~ Les Aspin
As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.
~ Troy Polamalu
There is no breach of European rules committed by companies from Romania or on Romanian territory.
~ Victor Ponta
Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.
~ Richard Russo
I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to - although they will acknowledge that the cities are completely different from each other - I think they still handle it as being one territory.
~ Sean Booth
I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.
~ Eliza Dushku
Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.
~ Zebulon Pike
I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.
~ Anna Sui
Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
~ Vicente Fox
In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
~ Naoto Kan
Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.
~ Denis McDonough
I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.
~ Denis Leary