When trouble arise among faraway people, we remain tempted…

“People everywhere, including the United States, are still prone to accept stereotypes, eager to believe what we want to believe (for example, on global…

— Madeleine Albright

“Bad things happen to everyone. No one by their behavior can store up any immunity from disaster or tragedy. All any of us can…

— Janice Cantore

“The principle of the national state, that is to say, the political demand that the territory of every state should coincide with the territory…

— Karl R. Popper

It is true that the principle of national citizenship, associated with rights, and the control of a country's borders are two key aspects of…

— Kofi Annan

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights…

— Richard Perle

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such…

— Strobe Talbott

The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and…

— Pranab Mukherjee

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

— John Boyd Orr

There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets.…

— Jean Monnet

It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity…

— David Rockefeller

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of…

— Stephen Harper

In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power.…

— Amory Lovins

It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that.

— Norman Davies

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

— Arthur Henderson