NATO Quotes · Page 4

Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify…

— Jill Stein

NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.

— Vladimir Putin

Turkey initiated true multiparty elections in 1950 to join NATO. As a requirement of its membership, NATO can and should demand that…

— Fethullah Gulen

While Slovakia did not make the first round of NATO membership, as various requirements and reforms are instituted, these actions will enhance…

— John Mica

If Estonia or any member-state was invaded and Article V was not invoked, NATO will fall apart. If it fails once, the…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

I think NATO needs to redefine itself. There has been no substantial thought about what NATO is for since the Berlin Wall…

— Nigel Farage

America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.

— John F. Kerry

The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front…

— Ronald Reagan

Good relations with Russia are great news. Putting a stop to the [Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership] is great news. Defending American…

— Matteo Salvini

Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All…

— Ibrahim Rugova

President Trump has called on other nations to do more, and they have responded. By the end of 2020, our NATO allies…

— Mark Esper

Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's…

— Wesley Clark

“I see the impossible work being done by of my friends at the federal agencies, the Pentagon, NATO, Five Eyes and the…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

The fact is that there was a long war in which Serbia and its capital Belgrade were bombarded and attacked with missiles.…

— Vladimir Putin

I belong to the initiators of the... and we had repeatedly also asked the dismantling of the SS-20 but we did not…

— Petra Kelly

Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither…

— Peter Kenyon

Whole part of the world is a mess under [Barack] Obama, with all the strength that you're talking about and all of…

— Donald Trump

We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore,…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The nationalist right have common views. They hate the EU, they hate NATO, they dislike trade, they admire Russia. Many of them…

— Anne Applebaum

I believe the Obama administration was asleep at the switch, not paying attention to what NATO and E.U. expansion - and promoting…

— John Mearsheimer

I dont want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where…

— Segolene Royal

Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy…

— Giulio Andreotti

The minute Putin went into Crimea, what Obama should have done is sent 50,000 troops to NATO. He didn't have to engage…

— Rudy Giuliani

Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration…

— Hamid Karzai

Russia wants stability along its Western borders, neighbors who treat their Russian minorities with respect and prosperous trading partners. NATO enlargement promotes…

— Antony Blinken

With all of these strong ties to NATO, Ukraine is a mess. Crimea has been taken. Don't blame Donald Trump for that.

— Donald Trump

What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow…

— Lord Robertson

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Future U.S. political leaders, those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me, may not…

— Robert M. Gates

Obama confuses collective action and defence through Nato with the integration at all costs and damn the consequences ideology that too often…

— Penny Mordaunt

The day after 9/11, we should have gone to Russia. We did the one thing that George Kennan warned us never to…

— Seymour Hersh

[Donald Trump] attitude towards our longest defense alliance and NATO, that we should somehow walk away from it.

— Hillary Clinton

The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my…

— Boris Johnson

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

— George Ayittey

Donald Trump made it clear in that very interview that America will stand by our allies. We will uphold up our treaty…

— Mike Pence

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

— Penny Mordaunt

I realised that if we were not in the E.U., there were people in the E.U. who were also members of NATO…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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

— Kersti Kaljulaid

On Putin's order, Russian security services try to destabilize NATO allies the U.S. has sworn to defend.

— John McCain

Only five NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting their minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense.

— Donald Trump