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The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty.

— John Warner

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A key part of your sovereignty is the ability to control the influx and outflow of your people and is the ability to secure your border.

— Marco Rubio

Sovereignty is as necessary as ever.

— Pauline Marois

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

— Terry Eagleton

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

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

Our security and sovereignty stand together.

— Michael Gove

Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that's the mistake of Brexit that other people make.

— Emmanuel Macron

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

✗Opposing Perspectives

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

— Tom Tancredo