A Quote by Vladimir Putin

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

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Vladimir Putin
Russian - President
Born: October 7, 1952

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements.

Lord Robertson

I think NATO is obsolete. NATO was done at a time you had the Soviet Union, which was obviously larger - much larger than Russia is today. I'm not saying Russia is not a threat. But we have other threats. We have the threat of terrorism. And NATO doesn't discuss terrorism. NATO's not meant for terrorism. NATO doesn't have the right countries in it for terrorism.

Donald Trump

Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence.

Sellapan Ramanathan

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

John Stuart Mill

Other people have to understand where we are coming from, including our allies. Our allies have taken advantage of us.

Donald Trump

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

P. D. James

The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs.

Mathias Rust

In order to preserve a balance, while we aren't planning to build a missile defence of our own, as it's very expensive and its efficiency is not quite clear yet, we have to develop offensive strike systems. They [U.S.] should give us all the information about the missile defence, and we will be ready then to provide some information about offensive weapons.

Vladimir Putin

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

Jay Weatherill

A more worldly and competent foreign and defence policy is by far the preferred first line of defence - rather than the default position of relying on expensive but problematic hardware.

Paul Keating

I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.

Mike Jackson

From the bowler's point of view, if I look at a batsman, I don't see his shots, I see his defence. If a player has a strong defence, he is a very good player.

Wasim Akram

We must defend our NATO allies, but we should also ensure that everyone pays their fair share. The United States shouldn't be responsible for funding other countries' shares.

Carlos Beruff

The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level.

Bill Gates

I see NATO as a good thing to have - I look at the Ukraine situation and I say, so Ukraine is a country that affects us far less than it affects other countries in NATO, and yet we are doing all of the lifting, they're not doing anything.

Donald Trump

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