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The Philippines-U.S. Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement takes our security cooperation to a higher level of engagement, reaffirms our country's commitment to mutual defense and…

— Benigno Aquino III

Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China,…

— Junichiro Koizumi

The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

— Samuel P. Huntington

For more than 60 years, the United States has stood by our allies and partners in the Asia Pacific. That includes our defence partnership…

— Barack Obama

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

— George Washington

Korea and the U.S. have maintained a combined forces command system for a long time. Even if we were to get operational control back,…

— Moon Jae-in

There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

— Federica Mogherini

If old American alliance commitments don't count for as much, countries will, in some cases, then say, 'Well, we've got to militarize in certain…

— Richard N. Haass

We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time,…

— Sellapan Ramanathan

We need to strengthen Asian diplomacy.

— Ichiro Ozawa

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a…

— Hassanal Bolkiah

I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will honor them.

— Hillary Clinton