Cases Quote by Vladimir Putin

I'm asking : if the Kosovars have the right to self-determination, why should people on Crimea not have it? I would say: everyone should…

— Vladimir Putin

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

— Vladimir Putin

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…

— Richard A. Falk

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one must have an evil intention toward the…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from…

— John Marshall

In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.

— Ann Coulter

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule…

— Jesse Ventura

If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this inside your own…

— Sergei Lavrov

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

— James K. Polk

International law now grants rights to all human beings, not only to citizens.

— Kofi Annan