This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.
I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran.
The time has come to allow tribal governments to stand free—independent, responsible and accountable.
We have direct elections for the European Parliament. We have the [European] Commission that is independent from the member states. Of course we all belong to a country, but we are independent from our governments.
No one would die of starvation in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place …. Its military expenditure would not be heavy. Its army would not subjugate its own people or other lands. Its best-paid officials would not earn a great deal more than its lowest-paid servants. And finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult
Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.
My deepest worry was that after you do all that begging, and after all those people give you all that money, how can you keep your independence? My experience in the State Legislature showed it can be done, but I never had to beg for $1 million.
