Strategic Alliances Quotes

Never give less to your ally than your opponent is giving to that ally.

Politics is the art of achieving power and prestige without merit.

A state worthy of the name has no friends—only interests. [This is a generalized expression of British Prime Minister John Henry Temple's statement a century earlier.

Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.

Wars are often won by diplomats and businessmen—not soldiers

The Russians are liars – you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world power is like this, but that's the way it is, and we must keep our strength.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

The One Ford plan drives the business to get PGA, Profitable Growth for All, meaning that every year we increase the profits and cash flow. So how do we do that? We serve all the markets around the world with a complete family of vehicles and use the One Ford Plan.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire - this time under the Shia label.

Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.

Historians in the future will surely wonder what went so wrong when the United States, for the first time ever, focused its foreign policy on the Islamic world.

It's never easy to be a small country next to a big neighbor.

For four hundred years the foreign policy of England has to oppose the strongest, most aggressive, most dominating Power on the Continent …

Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'

Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.

We had to avoid wounding Austria too severely; we had to avoid leaving behind in her any unnecessary bitterness of feeling or desire for revenge; we ought rather to reserve the possibility of becoming friends again with our adversary of the moment, and in any case to regard the Austrian state as a piece on the European chessboard and the renewal of friendly relations as a move open to us. If Austria were severely injured, she would become the ally of France and of every other opponent of ours; she would even sacrifice her anti-Russian interests for the sake of revenge on Prussia.

In fact, during her [Hillary Clinton] tenure as Secretary of State, total arms exports from the United States in terms of the dollar value, doubled.

We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.

Our adversaries no long fear us, and our enemies are plotting against us.

The United States does not believe in durable coexistence with a moral threat.

I believe some of the tensions the U.S. has had with Russia and that the Europeans have had with Russia... China is taking advantage of some of those dealings.

The bogey of "entangling alliances" lurks in the corner of almost every treaty the Senate has had to consider in recent years.

Diplomacy, when matched by force, can achieve our objectives.