Sovereignty Quotes

While we transferred sovereignty today, we need to be honest with the American people that this struggle is far from over... Security in Iraq is worse now than it was right after the fall of Baghdad and may deteriorate further. The Iraqi security forces cannot handle the challenge alone, reconstruction has barely started, and massive unemployment has left many frustrated and even desperate. - Jay Rockefeller

When sovereignty will be restored to Iraq. - Lakhdar Brahimi

What we're seeing here is clearly a continued attempt and a more concentrated effort by the enemy to try to get all the Iraqis that are cooperating with the coalition to break away and not provide us that support that is so crucial to getting to economic progress and the transition to sovereignty. - Ricardo Sanchez

What is important is that Iraq is able to exercise its sovereignty and its power for the benefit of Iraq and for the benefit of moving Iraq out of the dangerous phase it is in, to a new phase. - Amr Moussa

We've had leaders who spoke of national affirmation instead of independence, who said they were waiting for winning conditions or who talked about sovereignty without taking concrete action to bring it about. - Marc Johnson

We're wanting to let all the people know that all the land in Australia has been given back to the Aboriginal people ... and the sovereignty now lies with all Aboriginal nations. - Robert Corowa

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security. - Douglas Feith

We would call upon all of Iraq's neighbors to respect Iraq's sovereignty. - Sean McCormack

We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty. - Jose De Diego