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Quotes About Sovereignty

One of the first things that the First Nations are going to have to decide is, is it going to 640 communities, or is it, in fact, going to be some 50 to 60 nations.
~ Paul Martin
I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone. We say no to whites owning our land, and they should go... They can own companies and apartments... but not the soil. It is ours, and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States.
~ Robert Mugabe
God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
To enter the U.K., you have to show your passport - whoever you are, wherever you're from - and you always will. That's because we have opted out of the passport-free Schengen area and have retained full control over who comes in.
~ Anna Soubry
Try to think for your own why the Russians and the Chinese do not like the idea that whoever takes aggressive steps to keep order within his sovereign borders should not accept others to intervene physically.
~ Ehud Barak
I believe whoever is in the White House, God is in charge. That's me. And I voiced that on TV.
~ Ernie Johnson Jr.
I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.
~ Ken Stott
This country needs nothing less than wholesale federalisation. The reasons are threefold: economic, democratic and cultural.
~ Chuka Umunna
Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
~ John Dryden
Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
~ Oliver Ellsworth
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
~ William Jennings Bryan
The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood and rotted English teeth.
~ Stuart Hall
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
~ Henry Kissinger
If we say Facebook doesn't agree with our rules in our country we are going to stop Facebook in our country. We censor a lot of things, why not censor Facebook?
~ Peter Sunde
We've opened our borders wide open to be flooded with illegal aliens coming into our country. This is the precedent that has been, and it will continue to happen unless we secure our border.
~ Marjorie Taylor Greene
I believe we could see a North American Union formed. Why else are our borders with Mexico and Canada being left wide open some six years into a War on Terror?
~ George Noory
Blockchain technology has such a wide range of transformational use cases, from recreating the plumbing of Wall Street to creating financial sovereignty in the farthest regions of the world.
~ Perianne Boring
We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.
~ Robert Webb
For those who want out, Brexit remains an end in itself, regardless of what is in the interest of our society, in terms of prosperity, security and influence on the wider world stage.
~ Kenneth Clarke
There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two.
~ George Monbiot
The idea of dual sovereignty rests on the premise that the power of the states to prosecute crimes existed before the creation of the federal government, and is reserved to them by the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.
~ Asha Rangappa
Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.
~ David Cameron
What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.
~ Vladimir Putin