Quotes About Sovereignty

A national currency, with the Euro as a common currency - that wouldn't bother me.

The French are overwhelmingly convinced that the euro is a burden. Returning to an adapted national currency will create millions of jobs and give us back our freedom.

We want to decide how we control our borders, our money, our economy, our currency.

I have been very clear for years - leaving the E.U. means leaving the single market, leaving the customs union, taking back control of our money, border, and laws.

I'm not cynical, but I don't really want to have a boyfriend or husband again.

Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same.

Taiwan is an independent sovereign country.

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.

The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.

Taiwan is democratic.

Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.

The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

I have this idea of a Taiwan Consensus, which means people in Taiwan have to get together and form a consensus of their own and that they turn around to talk to the Chinese to form a cross-strait consensus so we can build a relationship on that consensus. And in my view, that is the right order to do things.

We have to convince mainland China that a free and democratic Taiwan is more in China's interest than reunification.

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

We have a serious commitment to Taiwan being able to defend itself.

For many Taiwanese, almost all Taiwanese, we'd like to we say we are a country, and we have a sovereignty of our own.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

I am not afraid of anything. God will take care of everything.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Our government is for the people, by the people - and no one can orchestrate a hostile takeover. We, the people, control our destiny.

What happened with Brexit was people taking back control.

Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.