Craig Ferguson Quotes

[Vladimir] Putin trampled on international rules and sovereignty of the Ukraine.

Putin could no more survive returning Crimea to Ukraine than Bibi Netanyahu could survive giving East Jerusalem back to Jordan.

Napoleon once said that justice is the incarnation of God on Earth. I'm telling you: the reunification of Crimea and Russia is just.

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.

The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.

Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.

We should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.

If Americans are entitled to hit Iraq unilaterally, then why isn't Russia entitled to the same with respect to Georgia? Why is China not entitled to the same with respect to some other neighboring country which, according to Chinese views, may be supporting insurrection in Tibet or Shenyang? Why, say, India is not entitled to hit Pakistan, which openly supports terrorists in Kashmir and which has nuclear weapons, and which has a very fragile domestic situation under which fundamentalists any day can come to power

No nation should have the right to simply grab land from another nation.

According to international law, Crimea is Ukraine's. Period.

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

The U.S. actions in Kosovo - carving out an independent state based on ethnicity from within a sovereign nation - provided the precedent for Russia to carve Crimea out of Ukraine.

China's island-building in the South China Sea poses a threat to U.S. national security interests in the region.

We continue to advocate and demand that the territorial integrity of both Ukraine and Georgia be preserved... It is absolutely unacceptable that in the 21st century, Russia is shifting borders in Europe by force.

Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.

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

China's Nine-Dashed Line was deemed an unlawful maritime claim by an arbitral tribunal convened under the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention in July 2016, a position shared by the U.S. government.

Japan is opposed to any actions that escalate tensions in the South China Sea.

For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.

Russia should recognize the freedom of countries, such as Ukraine, to choose their alliances.

I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and existing world.

I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.

Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.