Will Hurd Quotes

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

Security can no longer be attained by arming ourselves against a potential enemy. Rather, security is attainable only with his cooperation.

Economic cooperation makes the American people and others around the world more prosperous and secure.

Throughout our history the United States has benefited form having stronger relationships, including investments in Europe, that have kept us and the world safer and benefited us economically.

If a future U.S. president were to refuse to defend an ally under attack, NATO would lose all credibility.

We only won our freedom because of our allies, and we can only sustain it because of them.

In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.

America's commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view - a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate as to subject the action, and sometimes even the internal affairs, of each to surveillance and intervention on the part of all the others.

In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico; so much so that her independence and capability of sustaining herself are almost as essential to our prosperity and the maintenance of our institutions as they are to hers.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

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.

NATO – No Action Talk Only

A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest.

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.

It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.

What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.