Nato Quotes

The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.

We do have treaty obligations with our NATO allies.

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

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

[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.

The promise to share the burden of our defense has gone unfulfilled for too many for too long, and it erodes the very foundation of NATO.

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.

Donald Trump made it clear in that very interview that America will stand by our allies. We will uphold up our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.

NATO is an alliance, so all parts of the alliance have to be capable.

There's absolutely no reason for NATO to be sticking its fingers up the nostrils of Russia at every orifice. I mean, it's absurd. It's absolutely absurd.

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

NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.

NATO is going to be just fine.

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

I think NATO as a concept is good, but it is not as good as it was when it first evolved. And I think we bear the, you know, not only financially, we bear the biggest brunt of it.

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

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

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

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.

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.

We continue to stand united with Germany and our NATO allies in our ongoing efforts to build peace and stability in Afghanistan.

As Iraqi forces continue the liberation of Mosul, I'm pleased that NATO will be meeting the commitment we made in Warsaw to begin training additional forces in Iraq.

NATO needs to adapt its strategy to meet new challenges

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.

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

In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.

Early in my term I will also be requesting that all NATO nations promptly pay their bills, which many are not now doing.

America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.

I think NATO needs to be looked at.

Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?

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.

Right now, Russia's future should be wedded to Europe. Why they see NATO as a threat is beyond me. Clearly, NATO is not a threat.

I don't think anybody who is already with Donald Trump is going to be peeled off by his not knowing about NATO or why Japan does not have nuclear weapons, or things of that sort.

All nations agree that ISAF and OEF need to work more closely together, and that when NATO takes over operations throughout the country that there must be unity of command.

[Donald Trump] attitude towards our longest defense alliance and NATO, that we should somehow walk away from it.

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

Now I know a lot about NATO - NATO is obsolete, and the reason it's obsolete is because of the fact they don't focus on terrorism.

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

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.

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

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

America picks up 73 percent of the cost of NATO. We're paying to protect them. Wouldn't it be nice if people would pay, and we could do things properly? That's got to change.

Do you know what we call windows in Belgrade?' she asked. All our windows are broken and crisscrossed with scotch tape. 'Windows 99.

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.