Quotes About Sovereignty

If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man.

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

Ukrainians are entitled to decide their own future.

I don't think, Donald Trump doesn't think, no one thinks that a foreign entity should be interfering with a foreign election.

All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.'

Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.

Israel is not a European country and doesn't consider itself as such.

I don't want to leave euro or leave the European Union.

Only Europeans can decide what is best for Europe.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

A nation's strength ultimately consist in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other.

on the famous Lord Acton line: "Power kills, and absolute power kills absolutely.

For a subject people, independent statehood is a vital necessity and an advance; but once such a people has reached the stage of independence nothing can be more retrograde for it than to fix its mind on that stage and to refuse to look beyond it. The nationalism of a sovereign people cannot claim for itself the justification claimed by the nationalism of an oppressed people.

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

Forgive me if I have a kind of allergic reaction to all words that hint of nationalism...

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

so democracy means more than just going to vote. Democracy means that people should truly have the opportunity to govern their own affairs. The

En octubre de 2016, la primera ministra británica Theresa May sorprendió a muchos cuando despotricó contra la idea de ciudadanía global. «Si crees que eres un ciudadano del mundo —dijo— no eres ciudadano de ninguna parte.»

La eurozona fue un experimento sin precedentes. Sus miembros trataron de construir un mercado único y unificado —de bienes, servicios y dinero— mientras la autoridad política seguía residiendo en las unidades nacionales que la formaban. Habría un mercado único, pero muchos sistemas de gobierno.

Necesitamos una economía mundial plural en la cual los Estados-nación conserven la suficiente autonomía para elaborar sus propios contratos sociales y desarrollar sus propias estrategias económicas.