Hun Sen Quotes

I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

Iran is independent and independence is not tolerated.

I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.

Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore.

Hungary together with her annexed territories is independent and should be governed and administered according to her own laws and customs and not as other provinces are.

Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence.

Sub-national, ethnic or tribal factions cannot expect to undermine the political unit in which they exist while claiming the privileges of a sovereign nation-state.

There will be no annexation of ourselves or our territory to an independent Quebec without our consent.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength, or however greatly they may differ in government, religion, or manners. This perfect equality, and entire independence of all distinct states, is a fundamental principle of public law. It is a necessary consequence of this equality that each nation has a right to govern itself as it may think proper, and no one nation is entitled to dictate a form of government or religion, or a course of internal policy, to another. No state is entitled to take cognizance or notice of the domestic administration of another state, or of what passes within it as between the government and its own subjects

A commonwealth then is so far independent, as it can plan and provide against oppression by another, and so far dependent on another commonwealth, as it fears that other's power

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

We have a clear right to expect, therefore, that no European Government will seek to establish colonial dependencies upon the territory of these independent American States.

Be alike independent of crowned-kings. money-kings, and land-kings.

Please don't intervene. Please leave us alone. It is my job and we can cope with this matter. We are trying to explain this to foreigners. But if they do not understand or ignore our explanation, I don't care because we are not begging them for food.

A people who have courageously opposed French domination for more than eighty years, a people who have fought side by side with the Allies against the Fascists during these last years, such a people must be free and independent. For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, solemnly declare to the world that Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country and in fact it already has been so. The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilize all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.

No country can decide for another county.

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

I just think it is entirely normal for the United Kingdom to be an independent nation state.