Chester Bowles Quotes

Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.

We will continue to be a big contributor to NATO and our interests will be more secure.

For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans.

NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

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

There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

[We] are focused on protecting and defending our common security and upholding a rules-based order that undergirds the peace and prosperity of the region and the world. In this work, we are grateful for our continued partnership with Singapore.

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.

I'm hugely delighted with the presence of U.S. Armed Forces in the Polish territory.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

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

For me, it is clear that when it comes to the need of Israel to defend itself, the role of the United States of America is crucial.

The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.

When it comes to Israel's security, our military and intelligence cooperation, that's off limits. That's protected. That's sacrosanct.

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.

If we look decades ago, we know that NATO allies contributed a lot of equipment close to the border of the Soviet Union.

We have every reason to put our trust in NATO and in transatlantic cooperation.

Our European allies need to be able to buy our fuel, or they will fall to enemy domination.

President Trump is hardly the first U.S. president to call on the European allies to do more - in one form or another, every president since Harry Truman has done so. What is different this time, however, is Trump's suggestion that America's commitment to the alliance is conditional.

I will strengthen the South Korea-U.S. alliance.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

We have to go to those countries and we have to ask them to make contributions that are greater than the contributions they're making right now. You know, we're going to protect them, we're going to remain loyal to them, but at the same time it's a two-way street. They have to help us also.

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

It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them you're not allowed to by the home country. It made America realise that Britain was her real and true friend, when they were hard up against it and wanted something, and that no one else in Europe was. They're a weak lot, some of them in Europe you know. Weak. Feeble.

The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but in which it still is very dependent on the United States, especially militarily, but not only in that respect. So to blame the Germans for everything is an easy way out for some of those suffering in Europe today.