All nations Quote by Chuck Hagel

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

— Chuck Hagel

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to…

— Malcolm Wallop

Alliances are part of our destiny as a nation, part of our future as a nation and this is what guides me in my…

— Angela Merkel

Alliances are not a burden; they are a benefit to both our individual and our collective security.

— Lloyd Austin

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States…

— Walter Lippmann

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

— George Washington

“Alliances are useful in some situations. In others, they are absolutely vital. But”

— Timothy Zahn

No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such…

— James K. Polk

We need to have strong allies. Our association and connection with our allies is essential to America's strength. We're the great nation that has…

— Mitt Romney

Good alliances are made of strong, capable partners.

— Mark Esper

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of…

— Ronald Reagan