Strategic Location Quotes

Russia is a gas station posing as a country.

If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.

Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not even one American soldier and is located in a critical region for American national security.

You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

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.

Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

Russia is basically Italy with nuclear weapons.

Arizona is now recognized as a premier place in which to locate, expand and grow a business.

Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states...

Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary.

Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.

The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.

Many U.S. military bases are located in northern Okinawa and a number of drills are conducted there. We'll work with the U.S. military to ensure that effects on local communities are kept to the minimum.

There is on the globe one single spot the possessor of which is the natural enemy of the United States—New Orleans.

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources, politically as well as geographically.

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be.

The United States is a very important country to us in the international context. But on other hand, Angola is also important to the United States because of its location in the Gulf of Guinea and because Angola has many more natural resources to export.

With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

With ability to produce a diverse range of products, India has the potential to become the one-stop sourcing destination for brands and retailers of ASEAN nations.

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Greece is in the grip of politicians who are amazing unwilling to serve anyone but themselves … Greece is importantly strategically, so the United States is supplying funds to the Greek government, in order to prevent its collapse tomorrow.