There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.

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

— George Washington

We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests.

— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent borders. There are only permanent interests and everything should be…

— Chanakya

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

— Carol Moseley Braun

Why I can't stand this phrase about I don't have any permanent enemies, any permanent friends, only permanent interests. I can't stand that. It's…

— Cornel West

“In Geo-Politics, a nation has no permanent allies or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.”

— George Friedman

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle…

— Shulamith Firestone

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon…

— Walter Lippmann

Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and…

— Lynda Obst

I prayed for the first time in a very long time today. I explained to God that unless he wanted the Marxist-Islamic alliance and…

— Anders Behring Breivik

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as…

— Luc de Clapiers

I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul.

— Geoff Hoon

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians…

— Walid Jumblatt

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only…

— Douglas MacArthur

...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

— Theodore Roosevelt