Top 360 NATO Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm at a point in my life where I'm not going to be writing about NATO or NAFTA.

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

NATO needs to adapt its strategy to meet new challenges

NATO's essentially run by the United States.

I'm a businessperson. I did really well. But I have common sense. And I said, well, I'll tell you. I haven't given lots of thought to NATO. But two things.Number one, the 28 countries of NATO, many of them aren't paying their fair share. Number two - and that bothers me, because we should be asking - we're defending them, and they should at least be paying us what they're supposed to be paying by treaty and contract.

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in the North Atlantic Treaty, has been built up in the course of history, in the course of history France has left that organization. Normally the Alliance has been lead by consent, building up consensus on important issues of questions, in many instances over the last 30 years that I have followed events closely. In many, many cases was being done under the spiritual guidance of the American President, that is true, but sometimes also at the guidance of others.

Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

We have every reason to put our trust in NATO and in transatlantic cooperation.

I think NATO needs to be looked at.

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

NATO members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations.

We've walked away from our treaty obligations in Ukraine, putting NATO at risk.

NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing.

For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.

I served in the Navy in Europe and know firsthand the importance of our NATO partners.

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

NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.

Whole part of the world is a mess under [Barack] Obama, with all the strength that you're talking about and all of the power of NATO.

NATO is going to be just fine.

NATO remains a military alliance, and we are against having a military alliance making itself at home right in our own backyard; in our historic territory. I simply cannot imagine that we would travel to Sevastopol to visit NATO sailors. Of course, most of them are wonderful guys, but it would be better to have them come and visit us, be our guests, rather than the other way round.

I'm all in favor of NATO.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members. And if you just take the list of all the members of NATO and all of those who have been invited in recently -- what is it? Twenty-six, something like that? -- you're right. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem.

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

I'm a big fan of NATO. But they have to pay up.

We do have treaty obligations with our NATO allies.

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We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

NATO is indispensable to America's national security.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

NATO is obsolete, because it's not taking care of terror.

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

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

NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.

If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.

In recent years, we`ve made historic investments in NATO, increased America`s presence in Europe.

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

NATO's deterrence has always been adequate, and I'm not worried about the physical security of my country. Not at all.

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

I want significant parts of Nato infrastructure, important for the alliance, to be placed in the central Europe.

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.

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.

In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since shifted to the East. With the former Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO, the alliance has a different mix today. Some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. Apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in Europe - an aging population. Europe has come some distance since World War II in becoming Europe.

There is no doubt the NATO-Russia Act should remain valid.

We'll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.

I don't think Russia could start a war by attacking any of the NATO member states.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

As far as the Ukraine is concerned, it's a mess. And that's under the Obama's administration, with his strong ties to NATO.

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?

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

President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're not going to - we're not going to advance NATO into East Germany, if you allow the unification of Germany." Where is that pledge? Where is the logic behind a military alliance, devised in the time of communism, before the Berlin Wall fell, now being in the Ukraine, in Poland, in Estonia, in Latvia and Lithuania? I don't understand.

My place is in Serbia if the NATO criminals bomb.

NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.

I'm all for NATO. But I said they have to focus on terror, also.

When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.