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I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country. -- Madeleine Albright
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. -- Plato
I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America. -- Cindy Sheehan
We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours. -- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results. -- Will Self
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. -- Plato
Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work. -- Rudyard Kipling
They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business. -- Herman Melville
Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write. -- Darren Shan
Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government. -- George Allen
Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect -- William Wordsworth
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. -- Lucretius
If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians. -- Star Parker
It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path. -- Aleister Crowley
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates. -- Thomas Sowell
We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice. -- Carl Hiaasen
I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time. -- Tommy Hilfiger
I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace. -- Will Rogers
I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas. -- John Sherman Cooper
I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me. -- Jonathan Evison
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Bitcoins can be traded or used for purchases, but only with those sellers who will accept them. Because it is a system independent of external meddling, there can be no sudden devaluation of Bitcoins through the actions of governments. -- Kurt Eichenwald
The people, when they say 'Death to America!' - do you know what they are really saying? What they mean to say relates to the aggressive policies of the U.S. and intervention and meddling by the U.S. -- Hassan Rouhani
Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world. -- Jane Austen
Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it. -- Valerie June
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us. -- Annie Gottlieb
A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs. -- John Stuart Mill
All countries in my part of the world, we want democracy to prevail. I told the people, 'If you want American policies to stop, we need to take action.' We need to make the U.S. understand that its meddling is inappropriate. -- Hassan Rouhani
Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics. -- Robert Winston
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization. -- Oscar Wilde
We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way. -- Lewis Thomas
The best thing about Las Vegas is that no one pretends to be responsible for your behavior like they do in the rest of the country. There's no meddling self-righteous liberals or right-wing Christian demagogues telling you that you can't do something fun with your own time and money. If you can afford it, it's yours. -- Drew Carey
The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace. -- Thomas Frank
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life. -- Anais Nin
The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling. -- Mason Cooley
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs. -- Thomas Jefferson
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. -- Karl Marx
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. -- John Adams
Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick. -- Robert Hooke
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state. -- John Selden
... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people. -- Iris Murdoch
I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life. -- Tennessee Williams
As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself. -- Voltairine de Cleyre
Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty. -- William Penn
That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention. -- T. S. Eliot
The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling. -- Jon Stewart
I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart. -- Sam Walton
No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class. -- Carl L. Becker
The Gulf States are extraordinarily suspicious of Iran for good reason. They view Iran as meddling in their affairs. They have seen Iran level asymmetric attacks against their facilities or their interests. -- Barack Obama

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