Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck Quotes

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

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

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

No country can decide for another county.

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

Such a conspiracy does not accord with the general sentiments or views of the United States to intermeddle in the domestic contests of other nations..

I'd advise my American friends not to meddle in the internal affairs of China.

On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'

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

Governments interfere in the affairs of each other, when they conceive their own peace is endangered.

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

My country has been a victim of intrusion, of interference in its domestic affairs by foreign intelligences.

If you still hesitate for any time, there will be no way to rescue the Republic from the French yoke.

For us, sovereignty of Syria is very important.

We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.

We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.

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.

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

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

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

I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I wasn't going to be the pilot fish to the shark, whereas Australia quite happily bobbed along like a happy little pilot fish with a shark who was a messy eater, and I just couldn't feel like that.

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

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.

You can't give Russia the right to interfere with the internal affairs of counties in its area.... You have to drive up the cost to Russia for aggression.

All members will refrain in their international relations from the threat or the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.