Ronald Reagan Quotes

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

Drone attacks are against the national sovereignty and a challenge for the country's autonomy and independence. Therefore, we won't tolerate these attacks in our territorial jurisdictions.

American national security and American economic interests, of course - every president, every secretary of state - that is the primary goal. As you are in this job and in the work, you begin to see, though, that in the long run, both American economic interests and American national security are better served when there are other decent countries in the world who are both your allies and even when your adversaries are acting more decently.

We will save our sovereign rights as a nation.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

We need to protect the sovereignty of our nation, and we need to protect the security of our people here in the country.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Peace upon any other basis than national independence, peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity, is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased at such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.

We do not want to tie ourselves ... to the United States, because she is unreliable ... and her statesmen do not know the mind of their own country.

In the last resort nations can only find security in doing what their material interests dictate.

No nation, no matter how destitute, likes to be told how much military "security" to buy.

There is no nation on the earth that wants, for its security, to depend on anybody else.

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

Contributing to the maintenance of peace by making clear its determination to exercise the right of individual or collective self-defense … should any armed attack occur affecting its national security.

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

In short, I will never allow partisanship to undermine our national security when the lives of countless people lay in the balance. If that earns me enemies in Washington or at the State Department, then so be it.

I don't believe Russia would attack a NATO country or NATO as such, no matter which country we are talking about.

We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

I don't question any American president in terms of his commitment to the security of the state of Israel.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

If we do it, if we work to achieve all this [cultural exchange with Japan], we can and should talk about joint efforts toward ensuring international security, and not only in the Far East.

Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.

I think all the president-elect is saying is that we have to be able to be - to keep ourselves safe and secure, and when others stop building their nuclear weapons, then we'll feel more secure in that regard.