Quotes About Alliances

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

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

How I admired the life of taking pains, of living in defiance of a government that did not like you and did not want you and wanted to destroy you so that you had to build out protections for yourself with money and men, deploying armament, buying alliances, patrolling borders, as in a state of secession, by your will and wit and warrior spirit living smack in the eye of the monster, his very eye. But

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Even at its most powerful, Britain always needed alliances with other European states. There would almost certainly have been no British victory at Waterloo, for instance, without the assistance of Prussia.

As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.

We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends.

We have plenty of examples from twentieth-century history where, out of fear of liberalism or Communism, religious conservatives made alliances with secular populists and nationalists, and it ended up going pretty badly for everybody.

Different parts of Ireland have different alliances, because you have little pockets where counties are good at hurling, and different counties are good at football.

Everyone in Congress wants our country to lead, to build alliances, to help American companies compete, and to protect the interests and security of our citizens. You can't have it both ways. You can't expect others to follow if you can't lead, and you can't lead if you don't pay your way.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

Weakness is still what I see: weakness in the sense of a great gap between what is expected of a man (or someday woman) and assured capacity to carry through. Expectations arise and clerkly tasks increase, while prospects for sustained support from any quarter worsen as foreign alliances loosen and political parties wane.

Damn the MacHeaths for their jealousies, their mutilation of young pups, and their alliances with devil owls.

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

America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.

This is her world. Her domain. Politics and intricate back-alley deals, trade alliances formed over champagne and shrimp cocktail.

I think that when you look at our founding principles, it was based on America as a nation committed to universal human rights and a nation that was weary of foreign entanglements and foreign alliances that did not keep us safe or promote our interests.

Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

The other political parties are either in alliances or are formed with the collaborations of one or two different parties, but the Congress is different.