Global Defense Quotes

The U.S. is not great at defense, but in my travels overseas, I realized that everyone else is even worse.

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.

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of Enlightenment, threatened in so many places.

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'

To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?"

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced.

President Trump has called on other nations to do more, and they have responded. By the end of 2020, our NATO allies will spend an additional $100 billion on defense, an unprecedented increase that will make the alliance stronger.

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.

I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not to the military-industrial complex but to the military-scientific complex. You can see this in China.

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.

You could look at people in India and say we are manufacturing the cabin that is going to be a part of the U.S. President's helicopter. That's a pretty big deal, right? There are 11 other heads of state who we support, but the fact is, to me, it's a very large deal.

We still believe that if the Russian Federation and the United States bring their minds together, we can develop a common system which would be efficient in protecting the Euro-Atlantic region from threats coming outside this region.