Quoted in "Simpson's contemporary quotations" - by James Beasley Simpson - Page 2
“We will not let the Turks interfere the issue of Kirkuk. I am not afraid of their (Turkey's) military or diplomatic power, because they interfere in matters that do not concern them. Kirkuk is an Iraqi city of Kurdish identity, all geographic and historic facts prove that Kirkuk is part of Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey has no right to interfere in this matter. If Turkey allows itself interfere in the matter of Kirkuk because of a few thousand Turkmen, we will do the same with regard to Diyarbakir (Amed) and other Kurdistani cities in Turkey because of 30 million Kurds.”
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Source: Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America (2002), pp. 97–98
“I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.”
Source: Daisy Miller
The Middle East, Abstracts and Index, Volume 30, Part 4, p. 39
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Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999, The Common Good (1998)
Context: Property rights are not like other rights, contrary to what Madison and a lot of modern political theory says. If I have the right to free speech, it doesn't interfere with your right to free speech. But if I have property, that interferes with your right to have that property, you don't have it, I have it. So the right to property is very different from the right to freedom of speech. This is often put very misleadingly about rights of property; property has no right. But if we just make sense out of this, maybe there is a right to property, one could debate that, but it's very different from other rights.
“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
Variant: Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Abdel Hamid Zebari (December 25, 2007) "Turkish planes strike inside Iraq: Kurdish official", Agence France-Presse.
“Never allow your past to interfere with your future.”
Original: (it) Non consentire mai al tuo passato di interferire con il tuo avvenire.
Source: prevale.net