Oscar Arias Quotes

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

No country can decide for another county.

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

The American nation cannot reach across the planet and pick the leadership of other countries.

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

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

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.

It must be understood that it is not proper for the French government to interfere with our domestic affairs.

We don’t tell others how to run their countries.

The Government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may befall those States simply because they are situated in the Western Hemisphere.

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

No self-respecting country - especially one with our clout and proud history - should sign up to a proposal that surrenders the power to veto our foreign and trade policy to another entity.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

We ask that (other countries) do not interfere in our regulation.

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

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.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.

An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.

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

You know that we are not in the regime-change game. We are against interference in domestic conflicts.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Cambodia is not going to be bought by anyone.

It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.