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You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services. -- Gijs de Vries
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. -- Ulrich Beck
It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty. -- Dick Thornburgh
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
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
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. -- Richard Perle
Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted. -- Vladimir Putin
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress. -- Dick Thornburgh
Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders. -- Bob Barr
In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty. -- Pankaj Mishra
There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty. -- Edward Heath
You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns. -- Stephen Harper
The development of the Internet has posed new challenges to national sovereignty, security and development interests. -- Xi Jinping
China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity, -- Li Zhaoxing
Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death. -- Bertrand Russell
The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. -- David Rockefeller
In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all. -- Strobe Talbott
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction. -- Max Lerner
So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation. -- Joseph Story
When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and health, even prison services, nonetheless national sovereignty still needs to be exercised. -- Mary Robinson

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