#reign

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken. ↗

— Kemal Ataturk

#sovereignty #taken

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations. ↗

— Carlos Salinas

#danger #ends #force #frames #longer

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#best #big #devil #foreign #hairy

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#even #foreign #foreign country #like #men

Now comes the reign of iron. ↗

— John Ericsson

#iron #now #reign

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#country #exactly #foreign #idea #meditation

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#black #black hat #foreign #foreign policy #go

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people. ↗

— Evan G. Galbraith

#foreign #foreign service #guts #out #people

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#assumed #constitutional #curb #decline #efforts

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels. ↗

— Bart Gordon

#country #dependency #dispense #distribute #foreign