Comprehensive Quote by John McCain

We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties…

— Paul Cellucci

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

— Mitt Romney

And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make:…

— George W. Bush

Mutually assured destruction has always been a deterrent to rogue nations.

— Norah Vincent

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly…

— Robert Higgs

The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other…

— Ian Bremmer

Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

— Sun Tzu

Because there is no world government to protect states from one another, major powers are acutely sensitive to threats - especially near their borders…

— John Mearsheimer

The State, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. What is…

— Henry Hazlitt

In many countries, the authority of the state is weak and openly defied by militias and terrorist groups. In others, state forces themselves act…

— David Lidington

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of…

— George W. Bush

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

— Barack Obama