Foreign Control Quotes

No people likes to be ruled by foreigners.

The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country he left to honest European guidance.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons in any other land.

Russian control of Korea would be a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan,.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

No nation is so lost to pride as to submit the conduct of its internal affairs to the arbitrament of foreign powers.

When Hong Kong was under British administration, governors were dispatched from London to govern this city. We had no say in the matter.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

... we have no dynasty of our own and no liking for a foreign dynasty.

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs: by which means they had so visible an influence upon our whole administration, that we have, from that time, appeared to the rest of the world more like a conquered province, than a free independent people

An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary.

Philippine history has been far too long defined by the countries that controlled the country.

Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

With foreign officials come foreign merchants, and with foreign merchants come foreign soldiers. They will usurp our authority and influence to begin with, and in the course of time, our guests will have become our hosts.

Egyptian political elites are middlemen carrying out the instructions of Washington.

If Mr. Monroe should ever fill the Chair of Government, he may let the French Minister frame his Speeches.... There is abundant evidence of his being a mere tool in the hands of the French government

The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France's interests.

I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.

My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

We will no longer be kowtowing to despotic rulers and feudal monarchs whose oil supply lines are crucial to other aspects of foreign policy.