Sergei Lavrov Quotes

Such a conspiracy does not accord with the general sentiments or views of the United States to intermeddle in the domestic contests of other nations..

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

We don’t tell others how to run their countries.

The Government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may befall those States simply because they are situated in the Western Hemisphere.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems.

Let us keep clear of interfering with their [Egypt’s] internal affairs; let us leave reforms to them and their peoples.

This should be represented to the Austrian government, and you should impress upon how necessary it is that their decision to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina should be reconsidered.

The foreign policy adopted by our government is to do justice to all, and to submit to wrong by none.

In the wars of the European Powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so.

We do not have the God-given right to intervene in any country in which we feel like intervening.

I don’t consider myself an isolationist. I consider myself a non-interventionist.

No country has the right to impose its will or rule on another by force.

It must be understood that it is not proper for the French government to interfere with our domestic affairs.

As a prime minister, my job is not to try and influence or opine on what a leader of a different country should be doing.

India continues to be guided by the principles of being non-interfering, non-prescriptive, and non-judgemental. In other words, India remains ready to provide any support but strongly believes that it is for the Arab countries to decide their destiny without any external interference or diktats from outside.

If, on our own account, we do not intend to wage war, we are much less willing to do so for interests which do not concern Germany and are alien to it.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

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

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

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.

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.