Moon Jae-in Quotes

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union.

We as a country have something to learn from Israel, especially in the areas of security and defense, and we will of course be doing that.

We will do everything in our power to protect our allies, South Korea and Japan, including installing even more missile defense.

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

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

Korea and the U.S. have maintained a combined forces command system for a long time. Even if we were to get operational control back, as long as this combined system is maintained, our countries will continue to have combined security, and U.S. forces will continue to play their part in our security.

We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.

A country needs to be able to feed itself, fuel itself, and fight for itself.

America can be a party to no permanent military alliance. It can enter into no political commitments, not assume any economic obligation or subject our decisions to any other than our own sovereignty.... We will accept no responsibility except as our own conscience and judgment, in each instance may determine.

Israel believes, when it comes right down to it America is the only big country that cares whether they live or die. That's why I can say, give up the West Bank, because the Israelis knew that if the Iraqi or the Iranian army came across the Jordan river, I would personally grab a rifle, get in a ditch, and fight and die, and I would.

America’s military defense capability owes more to the Israeli intelligence input than it does to any other single source of intelligence… it’s value is worth more than five CIAs

Israel is absolutely critical to American national security.

While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and external enemies is, in fact, not a fully independent and sovereign state.

Our security and sovereignty stand together.

Israel has the power to protect itself and its citizens.

India has never played politics with national security.

Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.

I have always regarded nonalignment as a statement that India's policies - foreign policy - will be guided by what I describe as 'enlightened national interest.' That means we will make judgments on an independent basis with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest.

The goal of our actions is and will remain a sovereign and territorially intact Ukraine that can decide its own future.

We're not responsible for the domestic security of every one of our allies.

This is the first aspiration of countries: we are the landlords in our countries so that they remain free, and we can live in security.

Japan's own efforts to defend its own country are also effective in defense cooperation with the United States.

We are not a gigantic state, we do not have nuclear weapons, but our army is sufficiently capable to respond to any threat... Therefore, we will protect our patch of land, our statehood, and our independence.

The alliance with the United States is and will always be the foundation of our diplomacy and national security.