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Quotes About Sovereignty

We of course will say we claim sovereignty of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district. Others will come, and they will say we claim sovereignty. What can be the outcome?
~ Menachem Begin
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
~ James Monroe
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.
~ Richard Perle
In the age of globalisation, pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.
~ Jose Manuel Barroso
The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty.
~ John Warner
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
~ John Boyd Orr
National sovereignty can only be achieved after self-sovereignty.
~ Wes Studi
There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain.
~ Tara Westover
The 'Protect America First Act' is critical to secure our Southern border, conserve American culture, and defend U.S. sovereignty.
~ Marjorie Taylor Greene
A key part of your sovereignty is the ability to control the influx and outflow of your people and is the ability to secure your border.
~ Marco Rubio
Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.
~ Bob Barr
The Palestinians must be brought to an understanding that Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty and that there is no point for them in opening negotiations about Jerusalem.
~ Yair Lapid
Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that's the mistake of Brexit that other people make.
~ Emmanuel Macron
In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.
~ Dan Crenshaw
You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.
~ Danny Glover
Palestinian children deserve the same right to be free in their own land as Israeli children in their land. A two-state solution will finally bring Israelis the security and normalcy to which they are entitled, and Palestinians the sovereignty and dignity they deserve.
~ Denis McDonough
It is not O.K. for one sovereignty to dictate to another which countries or organizations it may associate with.
~ Antony Blinken
We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.
~ Emmanuel Macron
I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court.
~ Boris Johnson
It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that.
~ Norman Davies
I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.
~ Paul Bremer
Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.
~ John Abizaid
There is only one social system that reflects the sovereignty of the individual: the free-market, or capitalist, system.
~ William E. Simon