Booker T. Washington Quotes

America’s military defense capability owes more to the Israeli intelligence input than it does to any other single source of intelligence… it’s value is worth more than five CIAs

NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

We must have universal military training because the one hope for a peaceful world is a powerful America… with adequate means to instantly check aggressors.

[America should engage in] Progressive development of regional and other collective arrangements for individual and collective self-defense

Israel is absolutely critical to American national security.

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

It is important that both Japan and the United States continue to invest very heavily in the alliance to build up our defense.

It's only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we're properly equipped to face our shared challenges together.

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

I think NATO needs to redefine itself. There has been no substantial thought about what NATO is for since the Berlin Wall came down.

NATO is indispensable to America's national security.

I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union.

The U.K. is at the heart of intelligence gathering with our allies to call out hostile activity.

In both world wars, Britain understood that our national sovereignty could only endure if we cooperated with other nations. That our fate is inexorably bound with that of our neighbours.

A collective security relies on everybody doing their fair share.

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.

The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.

When it comes to Israel's security, our military and intelligence cooperation, that's off limits. That's protected. That's sacrosanct.

If Israeli intelligence that has been shared with the United States - whether the National Security Agency, the C.I.A., the Defense Department, or the White House - is not safely guarded, Israel faces a major threat to its security. Cooperation with America's agencies is deeply embedded in Israel's intelligence community.

In the face of a rising China, along with authoritarian regimes from Brazil to the Philippines to Turkey to Russia, and the constant presence of belligerent non-state actors, we need to reform our military to deal with asymmetrical threats.

There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.

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.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.