Emmanuel Macron Quotes

Britain is a European power. We cannot change our geography. Our involvement in the politics of European cooperation is one of necessity. Our wealth and our security depend upon it.

We [the French] have to keep defending our vital interests …, we can say no, alone, to anything that may be unacceptable.

The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.

The European NATO Counties are not interested in being liberated after 6 months of fighting on their territory. They are only interested in preventing the initial attack.

Our security and sovereignty stand together.

All small countries have the same problems and concerns about being protected from larger countries and their influences.

Security is an underlining interest of Israel.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.

I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe.

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

When the commander-in-chief sends Americans to fight and die, it should be only to protect our vital national interests, not for his own personal, political gain.

For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.

We are together with the British and Americans because one should fight terror. But we are not going to pay the price for it by endangering Israel and its citizens.

Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

France does not pretend to base her interests on disregard for the interests of others. France possesses a special standing in Morocco.

Just as we protect California, so shall we protect Japan.

The United States is the world's best hope; but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.

A commonwealth then is so far independent, as it can plan and provide against oppression by another, and so far dependent on another commonwealth, as it fears that other's power

We still give the nation state the monopoly on the legal use of violence in our own defense.