Country Autonomy Quotes

No country can decide for another county.

I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over American security to any other entity - not a nation, not a country, not an institution.

I'm in favour of a multi-polar world. I believe that every country has the right to defend its own interests.

Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.

The American nation cannot reach across the planet and pick the leadership of other countries.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.

I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

I cannot allow a third party to decide on my country's future.

The Serbian people certainly will never be an obstacle for the Montenegrins to have their own country.

We're an independent sovereign country and that's very important to Monaco.

No matter what you do, any country in the world is going to have the ability to set its own rules internally. Any country in the world can pull the plug. It's not a question of technical issues, it's not a question of right or wrong, it's not a question of whether global Internet governance is right or wrong. It's just with us.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.

A country isn't sovereign if we can't control who comes in and who's allowed to come in.

I cannot imagine our country not having the right to economic boycott.

I don't say every country has to leave the euro... But we have to leave the possibility if a country wants to leave.

Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries.

Every country has its own diplomacy. Being part of Europe doesn't mean giving up one's independence or no longer being able to take the initiative.