Quotes About NATO

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

I don't think Russia could start a war by attacking any of the NATO member states.

I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them.

We will continue to be a big contributor to NATO and our interests will be more secure.

The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so.

We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to break up NATO.

Russia's number-one goal is to pull apart the E.U., to pull apart NATO.

NATO should demonstrate that it is capable of creating new forces which would protect its eastern flank. It would constitute an enormous change.

The values that underpin Nato are social democratic values: liberty, democracy, freedom of expression.

Our future defence relationship with Europe should be complimentary - and not in competition to - NATO. It must be effective, too.

I don't believe Russia would attack a NATO country or NATO as such, no matter which country we are talking about.

We have every reason to put our trust in NATO and in transatlantic cooperation.

We made a clear commitment to NATO's two percent goal. I know that we can't get there from one day to the next, but I'm just as clear on the fact that we must get there in the end.

Sobretudo Clinton, o presidente que tinha gerido com mão de ferro o desmantelamento do império soviético, retomando metade da Europa sem nunca conceder nada, fazendo crescer a OTAN quase até às nossas fronteiras e deixando os abutres desmembrar, pedaço a pedaço, aquilo que restava do nosso sistema produtivo.

The United States was an empire not for the purpose of subjugation or exploitation, but for the aspiration of advancing the expressly articulated ideals of the United Nations, the Atlantic Charter, and NATO: namely, the right of nations to stand free from outside coercion or subversion of peoples to chart their own destiny.

NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation.

Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.

If someone is undertaking aggressive military activities in Ukraine and Syria, if someone is bolstering his military presence near his neighbors... then we have an unequivocal answer regarding who wants to start a new Cold War. Certainly, it is not Poland or the NATO alliance.

As a geographic location, Greece offers the best bases in the NATO Alliance from which to operate in the trouble spots of the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.

NATO bombing of Serbia was undertaken by the 'international community,' according to consistent Western rhetoric—although those who did not have their heads buried in the sand knew that it was opposed by most of the world, often quite vocally. Those who do not support the actions of wealth and power are not part of 'the global community.

In the case of Yugoslavia v.s. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.

At the time thousands of Africans were dying over control of diamonds sold in shopping malls around the world, U.S president Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury, NATO began bombing Yugoslavia, and everyone else was preparing for digital disaster from Y2K

U.S. adversaries exploit power gaps. It's easier for Russia to invade Ukraine with irregular forces out of uniform, the so-called 'little green men,' than to send a conventional army that would challenge NATO.