Jens Stoltenberg Quotes

It is important that both Japan and the United States continue to invest very heavily in the alliance to build up our defense.

As long as NATO changes when the world is changing, we will be very important for the security of all our allies, including the United States.

NATO is an alliance, so all parts of the alliance have to be capable.

NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

I believe a strong NATO has been the bulwark of our defence in Europe. Obviously that's important in the UK national interest and I believe it's important in the US national interest

I see NATO as a good thing to have - I look at the Ukraine situation and I say, so Ukraine is a country that affects us far less than it affects other countries in NATO, and yet we are doing all of the lifting, they're not doing anything.

America has some capabilities that Israel doesn't have. And Israel cannot place their security in the hands of Barack Obama; they can't do it.

Our commitment to our extensive security cooperation with vital international partners, like India, remains steadfast.

NATO is still the most remarkable alliance in history. It stuck together through 40 years of Cold War, and it then joined together to fight in Afghanistan. In the 1980s, I would not have thought this was going to be possible.

NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.

I think NATO needs to be looked at.

I think NATO as a concept is good, but it is not as good as it was when it first evolved. And I think we bear the, you know, not only financially, we bear the biggest brunt of it.

There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.

If Estonia or any member-state was invaded and Article V was not invoked, NATO will fall apart. If it fails once, the alliance will no longer exist.

The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever together by common democratic values and traditions. This will never change.

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

The system we have is one that protects my rights under a president I don't approve. That tomorrow we'll do the same for you. And what people have in common is their commitment to those shared rules. And if you have someone who was a challenger to the shared rules, that's unacceptable. And we've never seen that before. Not in a long, long time but we see it now.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when he will find its protective warmth again.

We're working with NATO, the longest military alliance in the history of the world, to really turn our attention to terrorism.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.