Anibal Cavaco Silva Quotes

It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

France does not pretend to base her interests on disregard for the interests of others. France possesses a special standing in Morocco.

All foreign policy is the intervention of one nation's domestic politics into another nation's domestic politics.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,—entangling alliances with none.

We do not have the God-given right to intervene in any country in which we feel like intervening.

I don’t consider myself an isolationist. I consider myself a non-interventionist.

No nation is so lost to pride as to submit the conduct of its internal affairs to the arbitrament of foreign powers.

No state, without the Consent of the United States in Congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state;

No country can decide for another county.

Such a conspiracy does not accord with the general sentiments or views of the United States to intermeddle in the domestic contests of other nations..

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

I am always getting messages that I am paid by America, that I work for America, that I am connected with CIA... blah blah blah. I am not working for America, I am working for my country's good, but America is not an enemy for me.

Friendly governments do not act so as to undermine the national security of their friends, and do not presume to know better than their friends how they should contend with the many challenges they face. The Swedish government would do well to rethink its intention to act in this way towards its friend Israel.

European Parliament should not be involved in foreign politics.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

Let the French ministers take care of France; we will take care of Italy!

I'd advise my American friends not to meddle in the internal affairs of China.

We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.

It is totally unacceptable for a government to interfere in the internal affairs of another government and send aid, money, and weapons, to the people who are against a certain regime in another country.

In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At the same time he threatens me that failure to follow his so-called advice will be to jeopardize the special relations between our two countries. I say to hell with such special relations.

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

I love living in Vermont and I love living in New York. Does my love for Vermont give us the right to rain bombs down on Tripoli? Of course not. There are exceptional qualities about the United States. But it doesn't give us the right to impose our will on other cultures when they often don't want it.