Ronald Reagan Quotes

The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

We're probably going to see some post-2014 military presence - some U.S. presence and a NATO presence - and while we've got much work to do in the next 29 months, we'll have additional time later for the continued professionalization of the Afghan security forces.

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

The United States - you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And in those, there are a number of places that are our sacred sites.

A Russian naval base in the Persian Gulf would be a very grave menace.

Let us talk honestly. You know that your troops are in Laos; we know it; the Lao people know it; and the world knows it.

The Bush Administration went into the Middle East thinking it was spreading democracy. Instead they spread sectarianism.

Russian control of Korea would be a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan,.

Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?

The Russians are bent on establishing both a presence in the Western Hemisphere, and they're looking for opportunities to expand military cooperation: sell equipment, air bases, as well as intelligence gathering facilities.

The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.

Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States Congress.

If anything, prolonged overseas military presence breeds radicalization.

If someone is undertaking aggressive military activities in Ukraine and Syria, if someone is bolstering his military presence near his neighbors... then we have an unequivocal answer regarding who wants to start a new Cold War. Certainly, it is not Poland or the NATO alliance.

There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

Luxembourg was and still is today a crossroads, the place where Germany meets the rest of Europe. The country lost part of its territory to Belgium in the 1800s, and during World Wars I and II the German military overran it. Very few people have visited Luxembourg - when I went there and looked at it, I said, my God, it's built on a rock. And within the rock they had a castle, and within the city there's a network of tunnels so the residents could move around and defend themselves. That was of great interest to me.

New Zealand’s nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is accepted as orthodox in international relations. It was formally adopted in the cold war era as a form of resistance to the dismal doctrines of nuclear deterrence. It is still a rebuke to the unprincipled exercise of economic power and military might.

At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don't think we've got any options and we'd be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can't sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is.

Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.