Quotes About Alliances

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

Madeline traveled with ease through dozens of overlapping social circles, making both lifelong friends and lifetime enemies along the way; probably more of the latter.

Sono d'accordo, la diplomazia è preziosa e costruire alleanze tra i sessi è fondamentale. Ma la guerra c'è e quando i nodi degli interessi personali vengono al pettine, nessun uomo sa essere femminista quanto una donna.

The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them.

I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Vladimir Putin's Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and we've got to face up to that fact.

Don't downgrade your dreams to upgrade your relationships.

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

[People] are tired of being ripped off by every single country that does business with us. Whether it's China, Japan, Mexico, Vietnam.

Business is a cobweb of human relationships

Republicans can't run for office without the support of business.

International alliances reduce the cost of developing cars significantly.

Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affairs, so the Scholars, for their part, would have been unable to see the rich seething stew of alliances and enmities and feuds and treaties which was a child's life in Oxford. Children playing together: how pleasant to see! What could be more innocent and charming?

While women's desirability as mates declines predictably with age, the same does not apply to men's. The reason is that many of the key qualities that contribute to a man's value are not as closely or as predictably linked with age. These components include a man's intelligence, cooperativeness, parenting proclivities, political alliances, kin networks, coalitions, and, importantly, ability and willingness to provide resources to a woman and her children.

In uncounted ways has food forged alliances that intoxicants keep lubricated

I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

As Washington left the Presidency in 1797 he urged Americans to observe two rules: avoid dividing into political parties and avoid "entangling alliances" with foreign countries. The first principle was already abandoned when he spoke. And 20th century Americans would discard the second.

Shifting loyalties in the Middle East make it difficult to vet supposed moderate groups.

Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.

It's not who you know, it's who you sleep with.

Isolationism has largely been a myth that really means "the United States will make unilateral decisions rather than forming meaningful alliances.

If you want to look right now under Obama who our enemies are, just look at who he is nice to.

Josie already knew the answer. This group of kids—they weren't her friends. Popular kids didn't really have friends; they had alliances. You were safe only as long as you hid your trust—at any moment someone might make you the laughingstock, because then they knew no one was laughing at them.

In school, the other girls formed alliances which always excluded me. They called me names; I will not repeat them here. They made fun of my unshapely body, my pale skin, my untamed hair. I do not know why I was born this way.

Want to make enemies? Make some friends first.