NATO Quotes

• I saw my job as president as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated cooperative world community. Therefore, my approach was to cooperate wherever possible and to build institutions of cooperation, an expanded NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Summit of the Americas, the Asian Pacific Leaders, all those, the coalition to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo, to cooperate wherever possible but to act alone if we had to.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • President
  • Kosovo
  • Bosnia

• I am confident that today NATO is not only becoming larger but also stronger, more cohesive and more coherent.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Confident
  • NATO
  • Coherent

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

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Victory
  • Europe
  • Soviet

• If Milosevic does not comply, I can tell you that NATO is ready to act.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Ready
  • NATO
  • Milosevic

• Milosevic must comply with all his commitments to NATO.

  

  Javier Solana
  • NATO
  • Milosevic
  • Comply

• If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Black
  • Moving
  • Cases

• NATO stands ready to act and rules out no option.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Rules
  • Option
  • Ready

• NATO is ready to intervene if the situation requires.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Situation
  • NATO
  • Intervene

• Now they [NATO and the USA ] are sitting there, and we are talking about all these crises we would otherwise not have. You can also see this striving for an absolute triumph in the American missile defense plans.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Crisis
  • Defense
  • Strive

• There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Fire
  • Doctrine
  • Nuclear Weapon

• I think what Secretary Ash Carter is seeing, and I'm glad he is, is that we got to get NATO back working for the common defense. We've got to do more to support our partners in NATO, and we have to send a very clear message to Putin that this kind of belligerence, that this kind of testing of boundaries will have to be responded to. The best way to do that is to put more armor in, put more money from the Europeans in so they're actually contributing more to their own defense.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Defense
  • Secretary
  • Ash Carter

• The fact is that there was a long war in which Serbia and its capital Belgrade were bombarded and attacked with missiles. It was a military intervention of the West and NATO against the then rump Yugoslavia.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Long
  • War
  • Military

• Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, they all have ties to Iranian money. I think they are the biggest exist - existential threat... Russia could be up there, but I think it would probably be to one of our NATO allies rather than the homeland.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Money
  • Exist
  • Russia

• What's going to be important is having the opportunity to actually sit down with President Donald Trump and talk to him face to face, about the interests we share, about the special relationship, about the joint challenges we both face. Talking about the future of NATO is one of the issues we will discuss.

  

  Theresa May
  • Opportunity
  • Relationship
  • President

• You know, NATO as a military alliance has something called Article 5, and basically it says this: An attack on one is an attack on all. And you know the only time it's ever been invoked? After 9/11, when the 28 nations of NATO said that they would go to Afghanistan with us to fight terrorism, something that they still are doing by our side.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • NATO
  • Military alliance
  • Article 5

• I believe a strong NATO has been the bulwark of our defence in Europe. Obviously that's important in the UK national interest and I believe it's important in the US national interest.

  

  Theresa May
  • Interest
  • I Believe
  • NATO

• NATO is ready for its new mission -- a mission to bring people back to their homes and to build a lasting and just peace in Kosovo.

  

  Javier Solana
  • People
  • Peace
  • Mission

• We're committed to NATO. From the conversations I've already had with President Donald Trump over the phone, he has shown to me his commitment to NATO as well.

  

  Theresa May
  • Donald Trump
  • Conversations
  • NATO

• Often Americans have heard Donald Trump be very hard on China. But that's not how it's heard over there. In China, his message is being interpreted as the sound of an exhausted America, an America that is seeking to withdraw from its commitments to NATO, to holding up, for instance, human rights around the world.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Americans
  • Message
  • Human Rights

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