Hassan Rouhani Quotes

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

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

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 nation is so lost to pride as to submit the conduct of its internal affairs to the arbitrament of foreign powers.

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

No country can be expected to make peace with a nation that denies its right to exist.

Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence.

The government should not present the anomaly which it now presents—a government the freest, perhaps the most democratic in the world with reference to local and domestic matters in which you rule yourselves as fully as any people in the world, while in your foreign affairs, your relations with other countries, whether peaceful or warlike, commercial, financial, or otherwise, you may have no more voice than the people of Japan.

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

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

Preserve U. S. sovereignty and freedom of action by marginalizing the United Nations.

No country has the right to impose its will or rule on another by force.

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

Any nation's right to form a government and an economic system of its own choosing is inalienable.... Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

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

I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's 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.

I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.

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

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.

Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

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

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.