Emily Thornberry Quotes

We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe.

Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

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

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

Today the Turkish nation is called on to defend its capacity for civilization, its right to life and independence – its entire future.

Each nation has to find its own path and follow that path at its own speed.

[America] well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom …. She might become the dictatress of the world. She would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit.

I hope we shall never be disposed to offer to join the United States. They will display a great reluctance to take us but I believe we have a future of our own here.

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.

The foreign policy of a socialist country is conducted on the basis of the principle of proletarian internationalism and a fundamental element of this principle is the recognition of the right of nations to self-determination.

We [the French] have to keep defending our vital interests …, we can say no, alone, to anything that may be unacceptable.

Dignity is the issue that vexes billions of people around the world, not democracy…. People don't like to be told what to do by outsiders … Foreign intervention offends people's dignity.

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

It is God’s will that the United States not be a nation of followers.

It [the EEC] would mean the end of Britain as an independent nation state … the end of a thousand years of history.

No country can decide for another county.

Rename has always been much moor powerful being France on its own than being a province of the European Union.

I have always regarded nonalignment as a statement that India's policies - foreign policy - will be guided by what I describe as 'enlightened national interest.' That means we will make judgments on an independent basis with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest.

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

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.