National Interests Quotes - Page 4

• So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senators to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

  Jim DeMint

  Jobs, Cutting, Thinking

  "Sen. Jim DeMint: 'We Are Monetizing Our Debt'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 8, 2010.

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• I'm confident that America's foreign policy rebalance to the region will endure beyond my presidency because it's in the national interest of the United States.

  Barack Obama

  America, United States, Endure

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened national interest. That we will make judgments on an independent basis, with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest. In that sense, nonalignment remains as relevant today as it was in the early 1950s.

  Manmohan Singh

  Independent, India, Today

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• According to data provided by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, and the national interest between 9/11 and the end of 2014, at least 380 foreign born individuals were convicted in terror cases inside the United States. And even right now the largest number of people are under investigation for exactly this that we've ever had in the history of our country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Data, Numbers

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration. They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Race, Issues

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

  Thomas Sowell

  Art, Selfish, Patriotic

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

  Herbert Croly

  Rights, Expression, Political

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

  Dean Acheson

  Practice, Political, Affair

  Dean Acheson (1967). “Private thoughts on public affairs: a citizen looks at Congress, and a Democrat looks at his party”

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• As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Impact, People

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• I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.

  Lois Capps

  Children, Israel, Chemotherapy

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• It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

  Barbara Jordan

  Responsibility, Immigration, Democratic

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• I'm oftentimes asked, What difference does it make to America if people are dying of malaria in a place like Ghana? It means a lot. It means a lot morally, it means a lot from a -- it's in our national interest.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Differences, America

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• A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any government, would be an unsafe and improper depositary of the NATIONAL INTERESTS.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, People, Would Be

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.

  Mort Kondracke

  Grandchildren, Rights, People

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• They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Expression, Democracy

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• The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.

  Zuheir Mohsen

  Struggle, Islamic, Mean

  "Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden". "Trouw", March 31, 1977.

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• If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

  Abdallah II

  Military, Looks, Conflict

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• For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.

  Neal Ascherson

  Past, Government, Years

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• I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

  William Weld

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

  Daniel Inouye

  Fundraising, World Government, Air

  Iran-Contra Hearings Closing Statement, www.danielkinouyeinstitute.org. August 03, 1987.

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• It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.

  Vladimir Lenin

  World, Socialism, States

  Address to the Party Central Committee on May 14, 1918. Collected Works, Volume 27, pp. 365-381,

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• Despite all the noise and hullabaloo - military cooperation, intelligence cooperation, all of that has continued. We have defended them consistently in every imaginable way. But I also believe that both for our national interests and Israel's national interests that allowing an ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that could get worse and worse over time is a problem. And that settlements contribute.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Believe, Israel

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• When I came into office, the world was divided. Iran was resurgent. Iran is at its weakest point, economically, strategically, militarily, then since - then in many years. And we are going to continue to keep the pressure on to make sure that they do not get a nuclear weapon. That's in America's national interest and that will be the case so long as I'm president.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Years, America

  Source: genius.com

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• 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

  Strong, Believe, Europe

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I'm convinced that a trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K. is in the national interest of both countries and will cement the crucial relationship that exists between us, particularly as the U.K. leaves the European Union and reaches out to the world.

  Theresa May

  Country, World, Unions

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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