Quotes About Independence

For as long as we're using fossil fuels at all, globally, Canadians should be using Canadian sources.

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

At 15, I was modeling. I had to do my own hair and makeup. I also made my own clothes because I grew up in South Africa, where fashion was six months behind because of the seasons.

Everyone always said you have to make it in the States. But I always thought the best way was to make it in South America first.

I grew up in a small town in coastal South Carolina. Where I'm from, the people are known as Gullah people. They're some of the first freed slaves that lived on their own, without being attached to the rest of the U.S.

I went to South Korea once and I saw young people, about 15, they had skipped school to come see 'Band of Outsiders.'

If somebody actually came to me and said, 'O.K., this is it: write your last 'South Park' episodes,' I'd be like, 'No, no, no.'

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

My grandmother, my mother and my aunts and their friends were all of southern Chinese ancestry, and they were all strong figures. Though if you asked them who was the head of their families, they would have said their husbands; and yet it was the women who ran everything.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

I believe it is important for both Russia and Europe that Belarus is a sovereign, independent state where Europeans can feel at home.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.

We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.

The wall is not a bilateral issue. It's not something that we discuss with the American government. Every country has a sovereign right to protect its borders the best way that they see fit.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

The U.S. is a sovereign nation, and if the U.S. decides to build a wall on the southern border, it's their sovereign decision. We may like it or not.

I recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. And I have always recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the independent, fully sovereign Palestinian state that we all want to emerge from negotiations toward a true two-state solution.