Allies Quotations

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating.

Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

Even though Japan and Germany were not formal allies at the time that Japan conquered Shanghai in 1937, still, Frenchtown was an area that Japan could take complete control of - and they did. And it was the locus of nightlife.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.

In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.

As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements.

At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.

Where he was, where his cells were, where his logistical channels were, how he communicated. Who his allies were. Who donated to them. I think it's fair to say the entire range of sources were brought to bear.

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Each and every day, Israel remains on the frontline along with the United States in the War on Terror and is nothing but an unabashed ally of pro-democratic and pro-American policy.

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed.

Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.

On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing in the world. When it comes to one of our closest allies - Israel - President Obama has been resolute.

And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.

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

That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.

Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.

The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys - the Germans and Japan - were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in '45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad.

We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice.

We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.

We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

FDR's justices were allies while he was alive, but after he died, they developed four totally different theories of what the Constitution is, two of which are considered conservative and two of which are considered liberal.

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?

The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.

Vladimir Putin uses energy to hold our allies hostage. If energy is going to be used as a weapon, I say America must have the largest arsenal.

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

On France's part, this is more than a gesture, ... It's an attitude that demonstrates that we are solid allies and friends.

No one but the energy industry and its allies stand by it now.

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

I'd much prefer to have a lot of allies out there, both in the Middle East and in Western Europe, ... Late Edition.

Loyalty to allies is an important and central issue in German foreign policy but reason must always take priority,

I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.

This is the belief of the Left: You negotiate with evil, and get tough with your allies

I emphasized to members of the European community that I continue to be as optimistic as the president that, working constructively with our friends and allies through international processes, we can develop technologies, market-based incentives and other innovative approaches to global climate change.

GLAAD is reaching out to the show's producers to discuss our concerns and the concerns of community members and allies who have contacted us about this matter.

For the president to promote his agenda, he has to use Congress to move forward and change the subject. But it is difficult to get out of the hole that you dug when in fact your allies are also running for the hills.

If it does badly, the Congress's allies will become more restive and demanding, especially the left.

China's ambitious weapons modernization and reforms in military doctrine are aimed at promoting vast increases in its comprehensive national power, ... a wake-up call to the administration, to Congress, to the Taiwan government and to our friends and allies in the Asia-Pacific region that . . . China stands poised to assert itself as the pre-eminent power in the Asia-Pacific region.

What is clear is that the allies are deeply concerned with the conduct of the elections and are looking carefully at the relationship with Belarus.

Guyana is becoming one of our trusted allies and is cooperating with us against narcotics trafficking and in the global war on terror.

He wants to invoke the threat of polls (new elections), which the allies do not obviously want at this stage.

If the development district was outside of the 24,000-acre ultimate footprint, we would support it. We're asking our allies in Springfield to try to stop it. We would like to amend it.

If we lose our allies and do something very precipitous, it would endanger not just Americans around the world, but it would endanger this country, our security, stability in the world for a long time to come because we were rash in using our power.

If the five or six bombs' worth of plutonium they are sitting on ends up going into nuclear weapons, then I think we are really reaching a watershed moment where the U.S., its troops in the region and its allies are threatened by a nuclear North Korea, with, I think, very significant regional and global consequences.

He will, as he said he would, consult widely with our Congress, with our friends and allies around the world.

He had a very close relationship with Miguel Contreras and a very, very close relationship with Ludlow. He's very much a labor guy, but he's going to need labor allies on each of these issues.

I feel the rally has stalled amid disappointment about progress in the war, but Bush is right, the allies will be victorious, and that will provide more fuel for the market to advance from a purely sentiment point of view rather than on fundamentals.

There is a discussion underway amongst allies on the extent to which we need to in someway formalize these relationships.

He has set aside the charade of Kyoto and he is saying we can do it in a better way, a more responsible way, ... We will come up with an alternative. We want to work with our allies on this and our friends around the world, and we will.

He is most widely remembered in foreign-policy circles for being the United States' representative at the multiparty negotiation over the future of divided Germany. He persuaded the Bush administration to embrace German unity despite the qualms of allies and alarm in the former Soviet Union.

The purpose of the list is to raise public awareness of the plight of these buildings in order to help bolster neighborhood and community allies who are also trying to save these buildings.

Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.

Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

Such a statement should have been made only after discussions with the allies and partners. This is after all a coalition government being run with outside support.

President Bush and I are alike in many things. We both believe that the Philippines and the United States are strategic allies both in defense and in economic matters,

Napolitano decided that her special-interest allies are more important than Arizona schoolchildren.

It is clear that many top GOP leaders cannot bring themselves to offer a spirited defense of marriage for fear of being accused of bigotry by Democrats and their allies among homosexual activists,

It is good to evoke what happened, and to conjure up what might, happen again. Those who come together today meet as allies within the European Union and the Atlantic Alliance. Wars are always lost and everyone loses them.

I think the essential message was that Saddam Hussein represented a serious threat to the United States and to our friends and allies in the region.

It is important now for Blair to accept that foreign policy is a serious concern and to start to do something about it rather than being seen to brush it aside. ... must be directed against those carrying out, planning or supporting such terrorist attacks and not against those who are our allies in dealing with the terrorists.

It is another positive sign that the administration is willing to be honest and straightforward about the shortcomings of its allies in the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia.

Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.

Our call to people of goodwill and justice, and especially to all gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people, and those who support and love us ---our allies in the fight for liberty and justice for all--- is to take action.

Our biggest allies are the local development offices and councils. They're the people who get the flak from the business people who are attracted to Kent because it's more rural and less stressful than the city, but if they can't get metropolitan-quality communications, they're going to think about it.

our full support for his immediate pledge to stand shoulder to shoulder with our strongest friends and allies in the U.S.

It entails exchanging terrorist information and cooperating with many countries, going beyond our traditional allies and nurturing security relationships with many, many countries.

It is not clear what the impact of estrangement between the U.S. and some its allies will have on the financial sphere. The last G7 meeting did not achieve a great deal.