Miriam Defensor-Santiago Quotes

The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.

In the military budget regionalism overcomes partiotism.

A credible threat of force is only as good as the political will to use it.

The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only a tenth of ours. So the possibility of China challenging the United States for the next ten years over the Pacific is next to zero. There could be a conflict between us and China over Taiwan, but I think that, too, will not occur with the proper policies on both sides.

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now.

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

The North Koreans have gained, or bought, a lot of time through the six-party-talks framework to pursue their own agenda.

North Korea has enough chemical weapons to kill everyone in South Korea.

When the economies of countries grow, their militaries generally do as well.

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

The Pentagon doesn’t need more money. What it needs desperately is a functional procurement system …. The result [of not having one] is not just ordinary waste, fraud and abuse … but also deep and lasting damage to the country’s ability to project power and wage war.

It is inevitable that Japan will emerge as a major military power in the not too distant future.

Dwight Eisenhower… supported the nuclearization of the military and the militarization of nuclear weapons as a cost saving way of deterring the Soviets. Under Eisenhower, custody or nuclear weapons shifted from the civilian Atomic Energy Commission to the military.

Let us build a navy as big as hers and do as we please.

U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness.

If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

It is, of course, true that I have given priority to the settling of the problem of security and the problem of Irian Barat, although I knew that in order to do these things, almost three-quarters of our national product had to be spent.