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Quotes About Allies

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.
~ Joe Biden
Our soldiers fought in the Korean War to push back communism. As a result of their effort and the effort of our allies, South Korea is free today.
~ Pierre Poilievre
Isn't it essential in any prelude to a war to be sure of your allies and be sure of your objectives?
~ Dennis Skinner
The Obama administration and its allies, such as the Sierra Club, tried to kill coal because of their obsession with global warming.
~ Stephen Moore
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.
~ Vladimir Putin
Jinnah was not tempted. 'India is not a nation', he commented. 'It is a subcontinent composed of nationalities.' More than willing to fight the Congress, henceforth, he would fight even more the notion of one India and seek allies in that fight.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Sikh rajas of Patiala, Nabha, Jind and Kaithal—allies of the British even during the Anglo-Sikh wars—they required little persuasion.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
If we wish to understand the role of China in today's global society, we would do well to remind ourselves of the tragic, titanic struggle which that country waged in the 1930s and 1940s not just for its own national dignity and survival, but for the victory of all the Allies, west and east, against some of the darkest forces that history has ever produced.
~ Rana Mitter
If you're making enemies along the way, you're going to limit the ability for yourself to be successful in advancing your causes.
~ Steve Scalise
Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front.
~ Hjalmar Schacht
I don't want fans anymore, because the definition of a fan is a fanatic. The people who buy my product and ride with me are my supporters, not fanatics.
~ Prodigy
I have a lot of supporters.
~ Sean Young
There are so many people supporting me and so many good people on my side.
~ Taylor Fritz
Gay men have redefined and occasionally undermined conventional masculinity—publicly, for many decades—and often been great allies for women.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Make friends unless you feel strong enough to make enemies
~ Reginald Hill
Estamos en guerra. Mi táctica bélica puede resumirse en dos principios. Primero, yo sólo ataco cosas que triunfan, en ocasiones espero hasta que lo consiguen. Segundo, yo sólo ataco cuando no voy a encontrar aliados, cuando estoy solo, cuando me comprometo exclusivamente a mí mismo.
~ Ricardo Piglia
They're allies, Jamie. She immediately let go of him, straightened her back, and refolded her hands in her lap. I guessed as much, she whispered. It was a lie, made blacker still when she added, Even from this distance I can see them smiling. An eagle couldn't see their faces from this distance, he answered dryly. We English have perfect eyesight.
~ Julie Garwood
Her demise would result in civil war, which for Westerners would mean especially the collapse of trade, the default of loans and the emergence of more Boxers. And so, for these overwhelming reasons, the Allies decided not to pursue the empress dowager.
~ Jung Chang
One might well wonder how much more unanimously opposed to terror the Muslim world might have become, but for the course the United States and its allies took in the wake of 9/11. At a time when even in Tehran there were demonstrations of solidarity with America, the Bush and Blair coalition lashed out with its own violent rejoinder, a drive that would culminate in the tragically misbegotten Iraq invasion of 2003. Its
~ Karen Armstrong
Don't side with assholes," she said. Her voice was very not chill.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
You had so many friends.
~ Karin Slaughter
A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.
~ Norm MacDonald
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)
~ J. R. R. Tolkien