Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Sovereignty was not an issue in this campaign. The sovereignty numbers that were there before the campaign are still there. Sovereignty is as alive as it was. But there is work to do to convince Quebecers.

We don't want to deal with a separatist party.

For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

When you have people in a geographical area who do not want to be a part of a country, you cannot keep them in that country forever.

Canada is not another [American] State, and we don't want to be one.

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

Everyone from Silesians to Sicilians to Scots seems to want autonomy or independence. The British voted to leave the European Union, and hostility to the superstate is rising across the continent.

The Catalonian movement is quite serious; I don't think it's simply symbolic. I think that they believe that Catalonia can be more successful on its own than as part of Spain.

There's no alternative to Catalan independence.

The welfare of Catalonia is only possible outside of Spain.

I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.

If Brazil should decide on separation, let it be under your leadership, since you are bound to respect me, rather than under one of these adventurers.

Quebec will secede from Canada and form an independent republic. The 3 prairie provinces--Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba--will likewise secede and become part of the U.S.

Independence now and independence forever.

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

You must not expect the central government of any country to encourage separatism.

The right of a State to secede is not an open or debatable question

This object we expect to obtain, by a total separation from Mexico, as an independent community, a new republic, or by becoming a state of the United States.

From Kurdistan to Catalonia to Scotland, from Syria to Chechnya to South Sudan, from indigenous communities in the Andean nations to tribal communities in sub-Saharan Africa, many people are shifting their primary political identities away from the nation-states in which they lived for many generations.

Some civil wars are caused by one group within a country seeking its independence, while in other cases, the civil war itself leads one group or another to seek its independence as the solution to its problems.

… far from making one single Republic, this land has reverted to a state of many little republics of towns and localities.

I'm not making any secret of the fact I still believe in independence. We'll continue to argue the case.

Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.

We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.