Pacific Region Quotes

Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.

In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.

The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

I think it is a mistake to withdraw from Trans-Pacific Partnership because if America abandons the Asia Pacific markets, we'll lose.

The whole history of the United States has been that of a nation of imperialists, expansionists, unionists, enactors of the doctrine that a small State in a strategically vital relation to a larger State must accommodate its freedom to the security of its larger neighbor. In words and in deeds, the United States have denied that a small nation has a right to independence where such a right infringes the higher right of a vastly larger nation to health and tranquility behind secure frontiers. Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, San Domingo, the whole Caribbean, both flanks of the Panama Canal, the Pacific—they all tell the same story.

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

I will work hard to ensure Hawaii's strategic position in our national security remains strong.