Quotes About Sovereignty

We have a safe and good command-and-control system. Nobody can take away any nuclear weapon from Pakistan.

You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because the British were using it abusively.

Our republic is a responsible nuclear state that, as we made clear before, will not use nuclear weapons first unless aggressive hostile forces use nuclear weapons to invade on our sovereignty.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

We are not a gigantic state, we do not have nuclear weapons, but our army is sufficiently capable to respond to any threat... Therefore, we will protect our patch of land, our statehood, and our independence.

We would not accept any country telling us who to buy weapons from and who not to buy from.

We will not negotiate with anyone about our weapons and defenses, and we will make and store as many weapons, facilities, and missiles as we need.

We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use.

It is truly vital for the United States to assure that it is not attacked with weapons of mass destruction; to prevent wars in other countries from spreading onto American soil; and to maintain access to global sea lanes on which our economy depends. Beyond that, there is little or nothing in the world that should draw the United States to war.

When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.

Being part of the E.U. in Poland means that for the first time in a millennium, nobody disputes Poland's borders, and it brought a level of freedom that Poland has never known before.

That is our dilemma in Poland. We don't like to be ruled by the East.

No one from abroad can dictate to us whether Poles are allowed to defend themselves against slandering.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

The United States' job is not to police the whole world.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

The BJP decides its own policies.

I am not against Hezbollah as a political party, but it should not be the cause of the destruction of Lebanon.

I don't want a political party in my government that interferes in Arab countries against other Arab countries.

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.