Security Alliance Quotes

The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so.

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.

We want the U.S. to have constructive and stable relations with China. That makes it much easier for us. Then we don't have to choose sides.

The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.

For nearly 7 decades United States has been the anchor of global security. This is meant more than forging international agreements. It has meant enforcing them.

Israel is absolutely critical to American national security.

NATO is based on shared values. Democracy, individual civil liberties and the rule of law. In public and also in meetings with the allies, I have repeatedly pointed out how crucial these common values are. They are the basis for our unity, and unity is the most important basis for our strength.

We want in the UK to have a good trading relationship with the EU. I think that's in our interests, I think that's in their interests as well. I want to continue to be cooperating on criminal justice, on security and defense, with the EU, I think that's important for the safety of Europe.

We are all in favor of the U.S. taking an active and constructive interest in Asia.

The 1990s was not just Japan's 'wasted decade,' it was also a wasted decade for the India-Japan relationship.

Israel is our ally and in that we've made a very strong commitment to support Israel, we will support Israel if her security is threatened.

I think NATO needs to redefine itself. There has been no substantial thought about what NATO is for since the Berlin Wall came down.

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

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

Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

There is no doubt the NATO-Russia Act should remain valid.

India and Pakistan have to work out their difficulties … to take advantage of the century that is before them.

France has been maintaining a very special relationship with India on defence matters.

And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.

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.

Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared, smothered by the widespread and bipartisan conviction that the United States needed to stay engaged with the world to prevent future crises.

France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

NATO is obsolete, because it's not taking care of terror.

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.

I realised that if we were not in the E.U., there were people in the E.U. who were also members of NATO that would veto our joining NATO.