Reuven Rivlin Quotes

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?

Every nation, civilized or primitive, sees its land as its national home, where it wants to be the sole landlord forever. Such a nation will never willingly consent to new landlords or even to partnership.

Kashmir belongs to the Kashmiris. Not to Indians. Not to Pakistanis.

Honestly, Russia should want it, to give our territory, our land back to us.

Kashmir is ours, Kashmiris are ours, and Kashmiriyat is also ours.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

This is the first aspiration of countries: we are the landlords in our countries so that they remain free, and we can live in security.

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

If you're going to build something, don't build on land someone else already owns. You want your own land, your own domain, your own sovereignty. Trouble is, so much of the choice land - the land where all the people are - is already owned by someone else: By Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Apple (in apps, anyway).

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.

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

Cambodia is not going to be bought by anyone.

Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others.

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.

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.

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.

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

We're an independent sovereign country and that's very important to Monaco.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

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.

I believe that every people and every nation has the right to be free and independent.

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

Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.