National interest Quotes

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. It cannot be in accordance with the interest or the safety of Russia that Germany should plant itself upon the shores of the Black Sea, or that it should overrun the Balkan States and subjugate the Slavonic peoples of South-Eastern Europe. That would be contrary to the historic life-interests of Russia."

"America’s interests determine its friends and enemies."

"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time"

"We don't need permission from foreign agents and paid shills to talk with each other about what is best for our own country."

"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem and that yardstick is Is it good for America"

"The eyes of the nation are upon us. We are the stewards of its resources. We shall be remembered in spite of ourselves."

"America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests."