Vijay Mallya Quotes

We have no right to thrust our advanced views on our less advanced countrymen.

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength, or however greatly they may differ in government, religion, or manners. This perfect equality, and entire independence of all distinct states, is a fundamental principle of public law. It is a necessary consequence of this equality that each nation has a right to govern itself as it may think proper, and no one nation is entitled to dictate a form of government or religion, or a course of internal policy, to another. No state is entitled to take cognizance or notice of the domestic administration of another state, or of what passes within it as between the government and its own subjects

It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.

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

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

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.

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

A big country has to be careful. It's so easy for a big country to give offense.

We do not want to tie ourselves ... to the United States, because she is unreliable ... and her statesmen do not know the mind of their own country.

It is not Americans right to impose their values upon us.

The best American internationalists reject the idea that their nation holds a global copyright that gives it a mandate to churn out replicas dotting the world.

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

It is my opinion that whatever is the custom of a nation, and is practiced by the first characters of that nation towards their chief, cannot degrade strangers who perform the same.

we are not legislating on this subject in response to our own judgment … but in response to some sort of judgment which has been expressed outside

I wonder if these gentlemen have stopped to think how we would feel if we differed with another nation and needed help on humanitarian grounds and our political differences of opinion were used against us when we were begging to keep our people from starvation.

We will never allow you to dictate to us how to run our country and whom to employ in Afghanistan. How and where we employ the foreign experts will remain the exclusive prerogative of the Afghan state. Afghanistan shall remain poor, if necessary, but free in its acts and decisions

A President who wants to focus on domestic affairs must put foreign policy in a framework that Americans understand and that makes them feel secure.

Internal [domestic] changes always precede the change in the foreign policy of a nation.