Accepting Quote by Vladimir Putin

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

— Vladimir Putin

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done…

— Barney Frank

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are…

— Slobodan Milosevic

[NATO countries] have no respect for our country. They will do it. They'll be happy to do it.

— Donald Trump

NATO is an alliance, so all parts of the alliance have to be capable.

— Newt Gingrich

There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.

— Jill Stein

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

— Nigel Farage

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

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Nato has always acted according to a simple principle: it is not worth attacking somebody who is strong.

— Andrzej Duda

We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to…

— Malcolm Nance

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

— Sergei Lavrov

As the Cold War came to a close, Soviet leaders preferred that U.S. forces remain in Europe and NATO stay intact, an arrangement they…

— John Mearsheimer