Levy Patrick Mwanawasa Quotes

Israel never interferes in the domestic issues of any other country. It's not our matter; it's not our policy.

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

I want to make clear, in the most emphatic way, that the government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept measures that, in a unilateral way, one government wants to impose on another. That we are not going to accept.

Britain has national honor. It would not have allowed Israel to meddle in its internal affairs.

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, crossing Ukraine's borders.

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

American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

The government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose on the other.

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 will cultivate relations with neighboring countries based on the foundation of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one must have an evil intention toward the territorial benefit or integrity of other nations.

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

We in Israel certainly have a great interest in seeing peace, stability, and security restored to Egypt. We want nothing more than peace for the Egyptian people. We're not going to get involved in how Egypt, how the Egyptians should run themselves. That's an internal Egyptian affair.

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

We are pursuing what I trust is a correct course from the point of international law, and we are not intervening in the internal affairs of this country …

We have not sought to dominate or to absorb any of our weaker neighbors, but rather to aid and encourage them to establish free and stable governments resting upon the consent of their own people.

There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us … First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said?

No country can decide for another county.

The Government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may befall those States simply because they are situated in the Western Hemisphere.