Dan Quayle Quotes

We have every reason to put our trust in NATO and in transatlantic cooperation.

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.

We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to break up NATO.

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

The only thing wrong with NATO is that we don't belong to it.

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

I will work for Bulgaria's strategic choice - Bulgaria's membership in the European Union and NATO. I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

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

The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.

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

Peace and solidarity in Europe is not a law of nature. It requires caring, effort and perseverance

NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.

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

The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.

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.

For Poland, the United States is the most important ally.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

I don't want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where it's everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.

We will continue to be a big contributor to NATO and our interests will be more secure.

Turkey's a NATO member. If Turkey gets attacked, we have to help defend Turkey.

I am not, never have been, and never will be a politician. But I want to tell you the United States has always been proud of having the support of the United Kingdom, of keeping Britain in Europe. We need Britain in Europe.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.