Donald Trump Quotes

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.

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.

I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

The Philippines-U.S. Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement takes our security cooperation to a higher level of engagement, reaffirms our country's commitment to mutual defense and security, and promotes regional peace and stability.

NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

Israel is absolutely critical to American national 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.

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.

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

I think NATO as a concept is good, but it is not as good as it was when it first evolved. And I think we bear the, you know, not only financially, we bear the biggest brunt of it.

I see NATO as a good thing to have - I look at the Ukraine situation and I say, so Ukraine is a country that affects us far less than it affects other countries in NATO, and yet we are doing all of the lifting, they're not doing anything.

I'm a big fan of NATO. But they have to pay up.

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

For the United States to be a global leader, we have to have a very tight relationship with Europe. And we've held that relationship since 1949 when we established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. NATO is the bond. It's a security bond.

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

The United States’ alliances have provided its partners in Europe and Asia with such a high level of insurance that they have outsourced their defense to Washington.

I don’t want Italy to withdraw from the Atlantic Pact [NATO] … not only because our withdrawal would upset the international equilibrium. I feel safer …

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

Can the wider West establish a global 'cyber NATO?' It would be difficult, but so, too, was the founding of NATO itself, which was called into being only after successive communist coups in Eastern Europe.

The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.

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

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

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

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.