Friends And Allies Quotes

#1. In the name of "force protection," the military often rolls up windows, builds walls, and points rifles at the outside world. The best force protection, however, is to be surrounded by friends and allies.

Eric Greitens

#2. We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.

Douglas Feith

#3. ... one must oneself, in relations with one's friends and allies, embody the society one wishes to create.

David Graeber

#4. And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

Tom Hayden

#5. Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.

Ray Kurzweil

#6. Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

Paul McGann

#7. A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.

Ronald Reagan

#8. If Russia wants to use energy as a weapon against our friends and allies, let's use our resources to set them free.

Kevin McCarthy

#9. So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

Barack Obama

#10. America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world.

Ted Cruz

#11. In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

#12. People should be allowed to express their opinion. But, Americans need to know I'll be making up my mind based upon the latest intelligence and how best to protect our own country, plus our friends and allies.

George W. Bush

#13. I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

John Dingell

#14. I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my closest friends and allies, like my godfather. He said, "Let's do an album." I couldn't sing worth a damn, but there were some good songs.

Donnie Fritts

#15. Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also for undocumented workers of all ages and backgrounds who contribute to our economic security and prosperity.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#16. Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.

John F. Kennedy

#17. The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
[Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]

Sallust

#18. Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.

Alexander Pope

#19. Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.

Douglas Alexander

#20. A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

Richard M. Nixon

#21. Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

William Wordsworth

#22. Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.

Suzy Kassem

#23. Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

Kate Morton

#24. My fellow Americans, from the battlefield to the capitals of our allies and friends and partners, the free peoples of the world look to America as the last best hope for peace and for liberty for all humankind, for we are the greatest country on this planet.

John R. Allen

#25. And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#26. What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.

Hillary Clinton

#27. We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.

Ronald Reagan

#28. We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.

Chelsea Clinton

#29. England and the United States are natural allies, and should be the best of friends.

Ulysses S. Grant

#30. To our allies and our friends and our partners. Listen closely. We are with you. America will not abandon you.

John R. Allen

#31. Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#32. The two centrepieces of social intelligence are the possession of extensive social knowledge about other individuals, in terms of knowing who allies and friends are, and the ability to infer the mental states of those individuals.

Steven Mithen

#33. In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the experience of being the first black president of the United States, a role in which every day he renders what was once extraordinary almost ordinary.

Jodi Kantor

#34. Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

Chris Hayes

#35. America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

John Olver

#36. Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.

Suzy Kassem

#37. The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence-and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.

Van Jones

#38. You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the offenses as alleged in the articles of impeachment do not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.

Charles Ruff

#39. Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.

Dick Cheney

#40. It would be a mistake to suppose that all Urnings must be woman-haters. Quite the contrary. They are not seldom the faithfulest friends, the truest allies, and most convinced defenders of women.

Otto De Joux

#41. As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.

Shane Claiborne