Quotes About Sovereignty

I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I wasn't going to be the pilot fish to the shark, whereas Australia quite happily bobbed along like a happy little pilot fish with a shark who was a messy eater, and I just couldn't feel like that.

I think that if a United States of Europe were to be formed, it would be in our interests to fight for it, as all our old traditions would remain in such a united Europe, whereas if we were to start now as part of the Russian Empire, everything that had ever been in Germany would disappear.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

We don't want Arizona to be dependent on the whims of Barack Obama and the federal government.

We fought a revolution to free ourselves from arbitrary power and the whims of a monarch.

Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

Of course we have the right to have expectations towards Europe - especially towards the Europe that left us to be the prey of the Russians in 1945 - but above all we have the right to rule ourselves here on our own and decide what form Poland should have.

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

I'd rather rule the world now than be prime minister.

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Our priority will be to look after the interests of our own country and its citizens.

Our first priority should be to protect the homeland. If we don't, a future generation might ask, 'Who lost America?'

First and foremost, immigration is important to me. I think immigration has implications for everything else that is done. So securing the border, that would be priority one for me. That is, to me, most important.

The national interest is the priority. If not, what's the point in continuing to give money to the E.U.?

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

Our privacy, our rights as citizens - these are ideals that we Americans hold very dear.

Thanks to centuries of island freedom, when we were able to decide who came in and who didn't, it is far easier to disappear in Britain than in almost any other country in the world.

I don't believe in open borders, I don't think that would work. I think economically they're a disaster. Therefore there's nothing wrong with strong borders.