National Control Quotes

Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.

The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.

The only way to protect our people, the only way to secure the peace, the only way to control our destiny is by our leadership -- so the United States of America will continue to lead

Education and research is national, not E.U., business.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.

No matter how the Prime Minister [Benjamin Disraeli] may finger the hilt of the sword, the nation will take care that it never leaves the scabbard.

I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court.

I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries.

To control the American market is to own America.

The real bottom line is, the national unions want their hands on the money.

When we were told Brexit meant taking back powers for Parliament, no one told my constituents this meant the French parliament and the German parliament, not our own.

Let the national government be armed with positive and complete authority.

When you get back control of your country, you get proper democracy. You get back proper debate.

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

Britain must govern Britain and nothing less will do.

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

The British people are the boss.

The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.

Pemex will remain 100 percent Mexican.

For us, sovereignty of Syria is very important.

The sooner the Iraqi people are able to take their country's destiny in their own hands and establish their own control over it and its national resources, the sooner the process of pushing the forces of international terrorism out of Iraq will be able to begin. And the sooner the process of consolidating Iraqi society itself will also be able to begin.

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

The course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others.