Anwar Sadat Quotes

We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.

The arming of a government can really only be done by another government. To be really effective, aid must be governmental.

I want to thank the American people - on both sides of the aisle - for years of financial, diplomatic, and military support, and for helping us carry the burden of defense.

I don't disagree with Senator Paul's position that we shouldn't be funding our enemies. But I absolutely believe that Israel is a priority to be able to fund and keep them strong and safe after eight years of this administration.

All countries in my part of the world, we want democracy to prevail. I told the people, 'If you want American policies to stop, we need to take action.' We need to make the U.S. understand that its meddling is inappropriate.

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

If I were President I would veto arms sales to countries we damn well know our going to shoot our ass the minute our backs are turned.

We send them the instruments [arms] and they pull the trigger.

The French don't care where they send arms as long as they get some money.

No nation, no matter how destitute, likes to be told how much military "security" to buy.

(When British troops were still garrisoned in Egypt, Nasser requested arms from the United States.) You can't give them (the Egyptians) arms with which to kill British soldiers who fought shoulder to shoulder with you in the war (World War II.)

Iran is an ally of the United States. It is my feeling that we should sell arms to Iran …. Iran has been a good ally.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

We will not stand idly by while any entity - be it a foreign power or corporation - seeks to criminally or unfairly undermine our country's place in the world.

Israel gets more than half of all the military purchasing assistance that America gives to all the nations in the world.

We have a contract for the delivery of the S-300s. We have supplied some of the components, but the delivery hasn't been completed. We have suspended it for now. But if we see that steps are taken that violate the existing international norms, we shall think how we should act in the future, in particular regarding supplies of such sensitive weapons to certain regions of the world.

There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

With respect to Iraq, I did favour the continuity of American forces to work with the new Maliki government. They had enormous needs for intelligence, for training on everything from airplanes to more sophisticated ground equipment and the like.

I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador.

There isn't a doubt that Iran constitutes the single most important single-country strategic challenge to the United States and to the kind of Middle East that we want to see.

The United States provides Israel with crucial security and economic aid and invaluable political backing in the international arena.

Israel's security policy is determined by our needs. I strongly reject all the unfounded publicity suggesting that Israel is prevented from taking action because of international pressure.

It is in Pakistan's own interest that the Afghan army is able to fight effectively against the Taliban, which is more likely if they continue to have American advisers at their side.

All the nations that are adjacent to Afghanistan have a vested interest in the future stability and security of Afghanistan.

We would not accept any country telling us who to buy weapons from and who not to buy from.