Quotes and Sayings about Alliance
"Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?"
- John Amery
(Related: Dreams, War, Leader, Alliance, Being, Destruction, Fathers, Nothing, Seamen)
"I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Alliance, America, Corporate, Job, Projects, Water, Years)
"The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction."
- Jose Maria Aznar
(Related: Alliance, Destruction, Terrorism, Weapons)
"Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind."
- Clive Bell
(Related: Art, Family, Men, Religion, Alliance, Circumstance, Ecstasy, Mind, Religious, states)
"In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Equality, Education, Health, Values, Children, Corporate, Mission, Protection, World)
"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Politics, Alliance)
"Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized."
- H. Rap Brown
(Related: People, Alliance, Community, Will)
"The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
(Related: Nature, Values, Alliance, Europe, First)
"To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute."
- James Buchanan
(Related: Wisdom, Policy, Maxim, Washington, Will)
"Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her."
- Bernhard von Bulow
(Related: Peace, Alliance, EnglForce, Germany, Intentions)
"So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years."
- Steve Case
(Related: Years)
"Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Soul, Achievement, Alliance, Endurance, Infinite)
"As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression."
- Angela Davis
(Related: Alliance, Energy, Repression)
"Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states."
- Demosthenes
(Related: states)
"I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts."
- Jan Egeland
(Related: Alliance)
"In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide."
- Paul Farmer
(Related: Fact, Order, Poor, Solidarity, World)
"I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America."
- Tommy Franks
(Related: Alliance, America, Harm, Question, states, United)
"An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day."
- Edward Grey
(Related: Alliance, Circumstances, Day, May, Understanding)
"If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world."
- Edward Grey
(Related: Peace, Alliance, America, Cause, EnglFuture, Influence, Race, Will, World)
"Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power."
- Chuck Hagel
(Related: Leadership, Power, Influence)
"Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations."
- Chuck Hagel
(Related: Power, Democracy, Freedom, Influence, Interest, Nations, Value, World)
"Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility."
- Chuck Hagel
(Related: Policy, American, Credibility, Foreign policy, Problems, Security, Will)
"I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion."
- Stephen Harper
(Related: Government, Abortion, Alliance, Legislation)
"Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless."
- Adolf Hitler
(Related: War, Purpose, Alliance, Intention, Wage)
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Friendship, Peace, Commerce, Nations)
"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Alliance, Commerce, Nations)
"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Friendship, Alliance, Name)
"The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster."
- Walid Jumblatt
(Related: Islam, Alliance, Enemy, Ideology, Needs, Today)
"No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess."
- Anatoly Karpov
(Related: Act, Alliance, Chess, Obvious)
"Sheridan is still there, he's the president of the Alliance, everything that was in place when the series is there is still there, we're just moving the camera over a couple of light years."
- Andreas Katsulas
(Related: Alliance, Light, President, Years)
"I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Peace, War, Conflict, Military)
"We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Leadership, Goals, Alliance, Energy)
"I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools."
- Sally Kirkland
(Related: Education, Alliance, Schools)
"With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education."
- Sally Kirkland
(Related: Education, Work, Alliance, Light)
"The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin."
- Niki Lauda
(Related: Alliance)
"The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold."
- Niki Lauda
(Related: Alliance, Network, Sales)
"It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good."
- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
(Related: Power, Alliance, Evil, Gravity, Laws, Will)
"Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years."
- Patrick Leahy
(Related: America, Credibility, World, Years)
"Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely."
- Joe Lieberman
(Related: Community, Conflict, Future, Nations)
"We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country."
- Peter MacKay
(Related: Alliance, Conservative, Country, Liberals, Stress, Support)
"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them."
- Ogden Nash
(Related: Marriage, People, Alliance)
"In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange."
- William Odom
(Related: Alliance, Europe, Fact, Iraq, Losing, Support)
"An alliance with a powerful person is never safe."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Alliance)
"Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty."
- Marcus V. Pollio
(Related: Science, Alliance, Difficulty, Learning, Man, May, Memory, Variety, Will)
"Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else."
- Ted Rall
(Related: Afghanistan, Alliance, Country, Nothing, Trying)
"The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity."
- Jeffrey Sachs
(Related: War, Alliance, Defeat, Destruction, Fascism, Leaders, Prosperity, Salvation, World, World war)
"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Marriage, Alliance, Man, Open, Sleep, Woman)
"Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation."
- Sydney Smith
(Related: Truth, Alliance, Errors)
"Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years."
- Eliot Spitzer
(Related: People, Alliance, Nothing, Years)
"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."
- Barbara Tuchman
(Related: Power, Diplomacy, Fascism, Influence, Old, World)
"Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances."
- Malcolm Wallop
(Related: Ability, Conscience, Interest, Nation)
"It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression."
- Ahmed Yassin
(Related: People, Aggression, Alliance, Exaggeration, Military, United)
"Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate."
- Francis Parker Yockey
(Related: War, Love, Alliance, Hate)