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What he always took pride in is the solidity of Russian statehood and political stability, that’s what they loved him for. And it turns out that it does n’t exist. – Sergei Markov	Found on New York Times 10 months ago
This is simple: the District of Columbia must be allowed to govern itself. Democrats’ commitment to home rule should apply regardless of the substance of the local legislation, this is why the Congressional Progressive Caucus and its members have endorsed D.C. statehood, with every CPC member cosponsoring D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton’s bill in the 117th Congress. Statehood is the only way to protect the 700,000 residents of the District from this kind of interference, we will continue to champion this cause. – Pramila Jayapal	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They fear U.S. intervention in Ukraine because they fear we are conventionally superior, and if they interpret our action as offensive rather than defensive, that is when the viability of Russian statehood would be threatened, in accordance with the Russian national security concept and military doctrine. – Rebekah Koffler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Vladimir Putin understands that Ukrainian statehood and the Ukrainian national idea pose a threat to Russian imperialism. – Danylo Lubkivsky	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
DC voters have already said loud and clear that we do not want retrocession, we want statehood. – Muriel Bowser	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We know that D.C. statehood cannot wait. Generations of Washingtonians have been denied the right to participate in our democracy. – Muriel Bowser	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The United States opposition to Puerto Rican statehood has been based upon a racist concept, actually beginning with the idea of giving statehood to Spanish-speaking, brown skin Catholic foreigners, the fundamental opposition is based upon this notion of Puerto Ricans being other than. – Pedro Cabán	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We love to participate in the Miss Universe pageant and the World Baseball Classic, that unites us like nothing else. All that would be gone under statehood. We would be like New Jersey, my dear. – Cynthia García Coll	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I get the sense that when Puerto Ricans leave the island, they're even more nationalistic than when they're on the island, if they're more nationalistic, that means it's harder for me to believe they really are into statehood. – Pedro Cabán	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I remember him saying, 'I'm pro independence, dammit!' and I asked, 'What about your wife?' And he says, 'She's pro statehood.' Is that a problem? 'No,' he says, 'Statehood will never come.' And she says, 'And independence will never come.' Love always triumphs over status politics. – Pedro Cabán	Found on CNN 3 years ago
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The Citizenship Amendment Act could provide protection and a fast track to naturalization for many of the Hindus left off Assams citizenship list, while explicitly leaving out Muslims. The backlash to the law came as an unprecedented crackdown continued in Kashmir, Indias only Muslim-majority area, which was stripped of special constitutional protections and its statehood in August. Since then, movement and communications have been restricted. Our country is not just for Hindus. – Chanda Yadav	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The behavior of our eastern brother can not fail to worry us, we are not a gigantic state, we do not have nuclear weapons, but our army is sufficiently capable to respond to any threat... Therefore we will protect our patch of land, our statehood, and our independence. – Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We know the big contribution Great Britain made towards building Kosovo's statehood and it will be difficult for another country to fill this vacuum. – European Integration Minister Bekim Collaku	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The Geneva forum should be a 'workshop' for agreeing on the outlines of Syria's future secular statehood and for determining the ways of reaching that, but not an 'eastern bazaar' with elements of crude blackmail in respect of the international community, by issuing ultimatums, the Riyadh group, it seems, is trying to mask the fact it has no concrete and realistic proposals. – The Russian Foreign Ministry	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The time has come and the situation is now suitable for the Kurdish people to make a decision through a referendum on their fate, that referendum does not mean proclaiming statehood, but rather to know the will and opinion of the Kurdish people about independence and for the Kurdish political leadership to execute the will of the people at the appropriate time and conditions. – Massoud Barzani	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If the Americans are finding it difficult to understand or accept our clarifications (on Palestinian statehood), this is certainly worrying and requires tending to, he (Netanyahu) didn't say this (statehood) is 'unacceptable'. He said reality has changed. – Yuval Steinitz	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The people on the other side of the Prut river in Romania are our blood brothers, so I think their help is sincere, but ... the overwhelming majority of the population support the continuing statehood of Moldova. – Vasile Braghis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

What he always took pride in is the solidity of Russian statehood and political stability, that’s what they loved him for. And it turns out that it does n’t exist.

– Sergei Markov

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

This is simple: the District of Columbia must be allowed to govern itself. Democrats’ commitment to home rule should apply regardless of the substance of the local legislation, this is why the Congressional Progressive Caucus and its members have endorsed D.C. statehood, with every CPC member cosponsoring D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton’s bill in the 117th Congress. Statehood is the only way to protect the 700,000 residents of the District from this kind of interference, we will continue to champion this cause.

– Pramila Jayapal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They fear U.S. intervention in Ukraine because they fear we are conventionally superior, and if they interpret our action as offensive rather than defensive, that is when the viability of Russian statehood would be threatened, in accordance with the Russian national security concept and military doctrine.

– Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Vladimir Putin understands that Ukrainian statehood and the Ukrainian national idea pose a threat to Russian imperialism.

– Danylo Lubkivsky

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

DC voters have already said loud and clear that we do not want retrocession, we want statehood.

– Muriel Bowser

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We know that D.C. statehood cannot wait. Generations of Washingtonians have been denied the right to participate in our democracy.

– Muriel Bowser

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The United States opposition to Puerto Rican statehood has been based upon a racist concept, actually beginning with the idea of giving statehood to Spanish-speaking, brown skin Catholic foreigners, the fundamental opposition is based upon this notion of Puerto Ricans being other than.

– Pedro Cabán

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We love to participate in the Miss Universe pageant and the World Baseball Classic, that unites us like nothing else. All that would be gone under statehood. We would be like New Jersey, my dear.

– Cynthia García Coll

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I get the sense that when Puerto Ricans leave the island, they're even more nationalistic than when they're on the island, if they're more nationalistic, that means it's harder for me to believe they really are into statehood.

– Pedro Cabán

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I remember him saying, 'I'm pro independence, dammit!' and I asked, 'What about your wife?' And he says, 'She's pro statehood.' Is that a problem? 'No,' he says, 'Statehood will never come.' And she says, 'And independence will never come.' Love always triumphs over status politics.

– Pedro Cabán

Found on CNN
3 years ago

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The Citizenship Amendment Act could provide protection and a fast track to naturalization for many of the Hindus left off Assams citizenship list, while explicitly leaving out Muslims. The backlash to the law came as an unprecedented crackdown continued in Kashmir, Indias only Muslim-majority area, which was stripped of special constitutional protections and its statehood in August. Since then, movement and communications have been restricted. Our country is not just for Hindus.

– Chanda Yadav

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The behavior of our eastern brother can not fail to worry us, we are not a gigantic state, we do not have nuclear weapons, but our army is sufficiently capable to respond to any threat... Therefore we will protect our patch of land, our statehood, and our independence.

– Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We know the big contribution Great Britain made towards building Kosovo's statehood and it will be difficult for another country to fill this vacuum.

– European Integration Minister Bekim Collaku

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The Geneva forum should be a 'workshop' for agreeing on the outlines of Syria's future secular statehood and for determining the ways of reaching that, but not an 'eastern bazaar' with elements of crude blackmail in respect of the international community, by issuing ultimatums, the Riyadh group, it seems, is trying to mask the fact it has no concrete and realistic proposals.

– The Russian Foreign Ministry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The time has come and the situation is now suitable for the Kurdish people to make a decision through a referendum on their fate, that referendum does not mean proclaiming statehood, but rather to know the will and opinion of the Kurdish people about independence and for the Kurdish political leadership to execute the will of the people at the appropriate time and conditions.

– Massoud Barzani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If the Americans are finding it difficult to understand or accept our clarifications (on Palestinian statehood), this is certainly worrying and requires tending to, he (Netanyahu) didn't say this (statehood) is 'unacceptable'. He said reality has changed.

– Yuval Steinitz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The people on the other side of the Prut river in Romania are our blood brothers, so I think their help is sincere, but ... the overwhelming majority of the population support the continuing statehood of Moldova.

– Vasile Braghis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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