NATO Quotes · Page 8

President Trump has made no secret of his disdain for NATO and his willingness to consider leaving it.

— Tom Malinowski

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

I served in the Navy in Europe and know firsthand the importance of our NATO partners.

— Mikie Sherrill

NATO's deterrence has always been adequate, and I'm not worried about the physical security of my country. Not at all.

— Kersti Kaljulaid

A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest.

— John McCain

Russia is a direct threat to our NATO allies in the Baltics and in Poland as well as a threat to peace…

— Dan Lipinski

Crimea, a casualty of the West's attempt to march NATO and the European Union up to Russia's doorstep, is surely lost for…

— John Mearsheimer

It's been a long time since NATO was created, and I also think Donald Trump has spoken very wisely about the need…

— Mike Pence

Since Lithuania is a NATO member, the United States would almost certainly come to its defense if Russia attacked the country.

— John Mearsheimer

If a future U.S. president were to refuse to defend an ally under attack, NATO would lose all credibility.

— Jeanne Shaheen

The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.

— Mairead Corrigan

We've walked away from our treaty obligations in Ukraine, putting NATO at risk.

— Ryan Zinke

“Ko si zelo majhen, si ena oseba. Pozneje se pretvarjaš, da si vsaj dve, nato tri in tako to gre, dokler ne…

— Kristian Novak

President Trump should tell the Senate, 'No more admissions to NATO, no more U.S. war guarantees, unless I have recommended or approved…

— Pat Buchanan

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French…

— Warren Christopher

Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where…

— Anonymous

Back in 2007, many people criticized me for my talk at the Munich Security Conference. But what did I say there? I…

— Vladimir Putin

As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be…

— Tariq Ali

My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the…

— Ibrahim Rugova

I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason,…

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and…

— Jens Stoltenberg

US opposition to Russia and China has entailed sanctions against Russia, and Russia in turn has made counter-sanctions against Europe. So Europe…

— Michael Hudson

Let's go back to the beginning of the Obama administration, when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama led NATO in toppling the government…

— Ted Cruz

If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces,…

— Margaret Thatcher

In Ukraine, there has never been a consensus behind NATO membership. Even Yulia Tymoshenko was noncommittal when she was still prime minister.…

— Heinrich August Winkler

I've always said that if you want to find out what's going on in Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya, I'll give you…

— Michael Hastings

I think, of the kind of erratic behavior that many of us feared once Trump came into office. And I think you're…

— Max Boot

President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're…

— Rashid Khalidi

When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

— Donald Rumsfeld

NATO members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations.

— Donald Trump

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

— Jeremy Corbyn

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

— Sergei Lavrov

Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it…

— Fatos Nano

[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.

— Vladimir Putin

How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?

— Brit Hume

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

— E. P. Thompson

Early in my term I will also be requesting that all NATO nations promptly pay their bills, which many are not now…

— Donald Trump

If Trump takes an aggressive anti-Iranian stand, I suspect it will complicate his relations with Russia; how much so, depends on what…

— Lawrence Davidson

It is a fact that the US defence budget is larger than the defence budgets of all other countries taken together. This…

— Vladimir Putin

I think we have started accelerating over the past years. It's a modernization of NATO. It's at air, it's at sea, it's…

— Michael Leiter