Ariel Sharon Quotes

Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States.

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

We'll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.

I will protect and defend France's vital interests. I will protect and defend Europe.

The United States will always be a global leader, and we need to actively engage the international community to make sure all citizens of the world live freely and equally under their country's rule of law. We cannot, however, afford to fight other nations' wars interminably or stabilize their regions.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union.

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.

There is very little hope that the United States or anyone else can do much to stabilize Iraq, Libya, Syria or Egypt. Stabilizing Iran, and bringing it back into the family of nations, is much more possible. That would be a 'win' for both sides.

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.