Nato Quotes - Page 6

• NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Political, Term, Capability

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Country, Pay, Bills

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Currently, the United States has troops in dozens of countries and is actively fighting in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen (with the occasional drone strike in Pakistan). In addition, the United States is pledged to defend 28 countries in NATO. It is unwise to expand the monetary and military obligations of the United States given the burden of our $20 trillion debt.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Military, Fighting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think that there is a bipartisan consensus that's incorrect that we should have the whole world be in NATO. For example, if we had Ukraine and Georgia in NATO - and this is something McCain and the other neocons have advocated for - we would be at war now because Russia has invaded both of them.

  Rand Paul

  War, Thinking, Russia

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• As for ISIS, we know where they come from. We know who has used them in the past. We know their sectarianism leads to killings. Here the Turkish state, like its NATO bosses, has helped to create a monster that it now claims to oppose.

  Tariq Ali

  Past, Boss, Killing

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In light of Trump's irresponsible behavior, even Putin may decide that it was time to recalculate Russian interests. This could happen quite quickly if Trump goes ahead and wrecks one of the few potentially stabilizing developments in the Middle East during the last several years. Similarly, if Israel joins NATO, this might be more than Putin is willing to swallow.

  Richard A. Falk

  Light, Israel, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The rubber hits the road if Trump somehow turns his sights on Canada, as he has with Mexico, Australia and Germany, and takes some gratuitous comments on Canada's laxity on security or that Canada is not pulling its weight and has to do more in NATO, and so on. At that point, the pressure is on Trudeau politically, both from the media in Canada, from the opposition, maybe from his own party members, to shoot back.

  Michael Kergin

  Party, Sight, Media

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You have to listen to Trump in a nonpolitical way. When Trump starts talking on the campaign trail, "NATO's pointless, it's worthless. We're paying the lion's share and these people aren't contributing, and that's gonna end. This make America great, put America first." People think, "Wow! We're gonna get out of NATO, finally. He's gonna close up NATO!" No. If you listen very carefully, he was complaining that the other members were not doing their part.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Complaining

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think it's a real debate how big NATO should be and whether or not it's more provocative than good. Whenever there's a war fought, our soldiers fight it and our dollars pay for it. And, really, our decisions need to be about our national security.

  Rand Paul

  Real, War, Fighting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Donald Trump said that he thinks he can get along very, very well with Vladimir Putin and have very, very good relations with Russia. I'm sure he can, if he is willing to turn away from our NATO allies and reconsider whether Eastern Ukraine is really part of the country, and do whatever he can to accommodate Mr. Putin's views.

  Philip Gordon

  Country, Thinking, Relation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• While pursuing those relations with Russia, which are important - Russia is an important country - it is also important to stand by your friends and allies in Europe, defend your treaty commitment to NATO allies, stand by the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. It's not whether we pursue relations with Russia when we need to, but what we're willing to give them in order to have that very, very good relationship that Donald Trump seems to be talking about.

  Philip Gordon

  Country, Integrity, Commitment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most important thing is to build local capacity, meaning train local forces, build the local defense institutions, defense ministries, command and control, because, in the long run, it is expected that local forces are stabilizing their own country, fighting terrorism themselves, instead of NATO deploying a large number of combat troops in combat operations.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Running, Country, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Americans know that a strong alliance of free, sovereign and independent nations is the best defense for our freedoms and for our interests. That is why my administration has demanded that all members of NATO finally meet their full and fair financial obligation. As a result of this insistence, billions of dollars more have begun to pour into NATO. In fact, people are shocked. But billions and billions of dollars more coming in from countries that, in my opinion, would not have been paying so quickly.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Strong, Independent

  Trump's speech in Warsaw, edition.cnn.com. July 6, 2017.

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• It's been a long time since NATO was created, and I also think Donald Trump has spoken very wisely about the need to rethink the mission of NATO.

  Mike Pence

  Thinking, Long, Very Wise

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is a fact that the US defence budget is larger than the defence budgets of all other countries taken together. This is why I understand the US President when he says that his NATO allies should take over part of this burden. It is a pragmatic and understandable approach.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Taken, President

  Source: en.kremlin.ru

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• NATO is in our national security interests. And, yes, we pay a lot for it, but, when we had Afghanistan, NATO troops were by our side from almost all of the NATO members. And they put their life and treasure on the line for us.

  James Franklin Jeffrey

  National Security, Interest, Afghanistan

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Trump campaigned as somebody who was very skeptical of the multinational deals. He was supportive of Brexit. He was very skeptical of NATO. So what we saw of President Trump in Europe was what we saw of President Trump as a candidate.

  Amy Walter

  Supportive, President, Skeptical

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not very enthusiastic about smaller nations forming their own states, particularly those in the West, where they would, after gaining 'independence', remain in the alliances that are oppressing and plundering the entire world: like NATO or the European Union. The breaking of the great country of Yugoslavia into small pieces was a hostile, evil design by the West. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia after the so-called "Velvet Revolution" was a total idiocy. But Catalonia, if it became independent, would become one of the richest parts of Europe.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, Independent, Evil

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• After the fall of communism in Poland, we had a post-communist as president for two terms: Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was very good. He brought Poland into NATO and the European Union. The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns. Kaczynski appointed a judge to the position of deputy justice minister who had once sentenced current President Bronislaw Komorowski to a prison term.

  Adam Michnik

  Fall, Judging, Justice

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Turkey's a valued ally, important ally for NATO, not the least because of its strategic geographic location, bordering Syria and Iraq and close to Russia and the Black Sea.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Black, Important, Syria

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We stand firmly behind the decision made at the summit in Bucharest where it was decided that Ukraine could one day become a member of NATO. That is not only in the interest of Ukraine, but also in the interest of Europe and peace on our continent. But we also know it will take a long time until Ukraine fulfills the standards for NATO membership.

  Arseniy Yatsenyuk

  Long, Decision, One Day

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think Donald Trump needs to be very clear to Vladimir Putin. Let's try to discover areas we can work together. That's fine. We're two a world power. They're a great power arguably. But at the same time we're not going to give any ground. We have to defend our NATO allies.

  Adam Kinzinger

  Thinking, Giving, Working Together

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It shouldn't surprise any American to know that Russia uses its money and its intelligence services to spread disinformation, use subterfuge and deception and manipulation, to try to divide political opinion within the United States, within any Western European country, or among NATO countries. That's one of the techniques that Russia has used for decades, during the Cold War and during the Putin era.

  Tom Cotton

  Country, War, Political

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• NATO is built on security, but it's also built on values.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Security, Values

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Our president seems determined to do anything he can with the Russians and the Russians hate - but a report and hates us. He is malevolent and he is as close to pure evil as I can find. He's also brilliant. I don't understand what any American would want an alliance with Russia. We should be strengthening our alliance with democracies instead of trashing nato we should be building it up much more strongly.

  Ralph Peters

  Hate, Evil, President

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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