Internal Affairs Quotes

• Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Likes, Affair

  "Russia in Defence Warning to US". news.bbc.co.uk. April 26, 2007.

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• In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.

  Madeleine Albright

  America, Iran, Political

  "Secretary of State Albright Announces Easing of U.S. Trade Ban on Iran". Speech at CNN, www.cnn.com. March 17, 2000.

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• Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Wish, Germany

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “My new order”

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• The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.

  Elliott Abrams

  Issues, Iran, Land

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• What right does the West have to constantly criticize Russia? There are a few things about the West that I don't like either. But I am not constantly pointing my finger and criticizing things that are a country's internal affairs.

  Vladimir Yakunin

  Country, Russia, Doe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

  Kofi Annan

  Freedom, World Government, Nwo

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• On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Environmental, Affair, Planets

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Thinking, Russia

  "Interview with Secretary Hillary Clinton". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 20, 2012.

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• What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because John said. I don't want to have to endure that kind of nonsense. I work for the art of the individual.

  John Lydon

  Art, Want, Kind

  Source: www.axs.com

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• The idea of self-determination was gradually given credibility by international law, and it lent strong emancipatory support to movements of liberation struggling against a West-centric world order. Latin American countries used international law creatively, both to limit the protection of foreign investment by establishing the primacy of national sovereignty in relation to natural resources, and by building support for the norm on non-intervention in internal affairs.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Strong, Determination

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• [Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the
  representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs.

  Joseph Stalin

  Agreement, Two, Mind

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• Are there no American citizens sympathizing with whiteguard emigres who conduct propaganda in favor of capitalism, against the Soviets? Then what does the point involve? The point is not to assist these persons, not to finance their activities. The point is that officials of both countries should not interfere in the internal affairs of the other country.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Doe, Citizens

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• It is totally unacceptable for a government to interfere in the internal affairs of another government and send aid, money, and weapons, to the people who are against a certain regime in another country.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Government, People

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Character, Brain, Determined

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Why doesn't anyone address the substantive question of why other states blatantly interfere in Israel's internal affairs? Israel does not meddle in the affairs of other states in a similar way, so why do other countries feel entitled to do this to Israel? These actions violate Israeli sovereignty and I expect European Union member states to act differently.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Country, Israel, Addresses

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

  Lewis Thomas

  Thinking, Brain, Mind

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.

  Jefferson Davis

  Government, League, Abuse

  Jefferson Davis (1971). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small, has always been and is guided in its relations with other countries by the principles of mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-intervention in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefits, peaceful coexistence and economic cooperation.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Country, Integrity, Rights

  "The Nineteen Days: A Broadcaster's Account of the Hungarian Revolution". Book by George R. Urban, 1957.

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• I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

  Konstantin Rokossovsky

  Surveillance, Steps, Affair

  "Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, 2007.

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• I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Thinking, Iraq, Want

  Paul Wolfowitz's remarks at the press conference in Mosul, Iraq, July 21, 2003.

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• There can be no justification to admit, in any way, the use of armed forced to intervene in the internal affairs of a WTO [Warsaw Treaty Organization] member country. The solving of domestic problems belongs exclusively to the Party and people of each country and any kind of interference can only do harm to the cause of socialism, friendship and collaboration among the socialist countries.

  Nicolae Ceausescu

  Country, Party, Socialist Countries

  Commencement address at the Romanian Military Academy August 14, 1968. "The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968: Forty Years Later". Book by M. Mark Stolarik, 2010.

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• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  Hamid Karzai

  Talking, America, United States

  "Interview with Representative Dana Rohrabacher". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 22, 2012.

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• To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man's eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Eye, Men, Law

  Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.177

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• Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.

  Bill Vaughan

  India, Ambassadors, Affair

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• A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Thinking, Citizens

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