“God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.” WorldShouldPrayerAccountsFlawsAlliances Author:Philip Yancey
“What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them are hung on a single string - the loosely-reined voice mentioned above. Thus the collection jogs away from suzerainty and past federation toward, I guess, alliance. Or maybe call each story a separate house on a single street? Or it's all a line of dive bars on some wharf front? What the hell, let's call reading the collection a pub crawl, but with words.” WayStoriesPastReadingHouseVoiceLinesSpaceHellStreetsFrontsBarsCollectionsOver ItStringsHungReignAlliancesPubsFederationOrganizing Things Author:Roy Kesey
“I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.” KnowsEnoughTogetherHeardConversationPerformancesFolksHip HopHipsHopsFestivalsAlliancesJamMemphis Author:Bela Fleck
“So our own actions sometimes have undermined our safety, in our efforts to fight terrorism. The only way this can work is if we are aligned with liberals, with moderate Muslim forces. But if our war on terrorism is seen - as it is seen by many Muslims - as a war on Islam itself, it's very hard for us to have Muslim alliances, because America and the West have become so toxic.” IfsWayWarSometimesHardActionAmericaFightingForceEffortSafetyWestIslamTerrorismToxicModeratesAlliancesWar On TerrorWar On Terrorism Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
“I'm based in Stockholm and I train at Nexus Fighter Centre, it's my club and my head coach Andreas Michael but for two weeks now I went to Vegas to train with Team Alliance with coach Eric Del Fierro, Phil Davis and top level guys. I had top level sparring so I'm more than ready.” TwoGuyLevelsWeekTeamReadyTrainClubsCoachesFighterCentreVegasAlliancesTwo WeeksEricAndreaHead CoachesNexusSparringStockholm Author:Alexander Gustafsson
“There are solutions that are proper, but they require the painstaking and difficult work of building alliances and also being prepared to analyze the problem realistically. And exactly the same thing is going on my side of the Atlantic as is going on your side of the Atlantic.” ProblemDifficultSidesBuildingSolutionsPreparedAlliancesYour SideDifficult Work Author:Tony Blair
“Well, we definitely need a strong and clear and assertive America. That's for sure. But you've always got to build alliances. And so it's very important that we are able to build those alliances. And where we don't do what in a way to extremists want us to do, which is to make this into a battle between the West and Islam - it's not. This isn't a clash between civilizations. It's about whether the values of tolerance and respect for difference prevail.” WayWantNeedsWellsImportantAbleAmericaValuesStrongDifferencesClearCivilizationBattleWestIslamToleranceWant UAlliancesClashExtremistAssertiveTolerance And Respect Author:Tony Blair
“The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war. Western television networks aren't showing this, but Arab networks are showing how prisoners are being killed and what's being done to them. Instead, we're shown scenes that are deliberately created for the Western media: a few women without the veil, a woman reading the news on Kabul television, and 150 people cheering.” PeopleWarDoneReadingKnownMediaTelevisionSceneNewsWesternPrisonerCheerConventionsVeilsAlliancesTalibanBeing DoneBreachKabulWestern Media Author:Tariq Ali
“To be an ally is a formal military alliance. And we have a formal military alliance in NATO. But we are partners with other countries all across the world. And they're - they will be a partner.” WorldCountryMilitaryPartnersAlliesOther CountriesFormalAlliancesNato Author:Joe Biden
“In the year of chan yan..., Jupiter was in [the Zodiacal Division of] Zi, it rose in the morning and went under in the evening together with the Lunar Mansions Xunu, Xu and Wei. It was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish (chi) star appended (fu) to its side. This is called "an alliance" (tong meng).” YearsTogetherScienceStarsSidesMorningMoonRoseEveningDivisionAlliancesMansionsJupiter Author:Gan De
“There is a reason why you see such an antagonism to religion. Because communism necessitates the destruction of religion for one reason. Communism needs for government to be your God. So there cannot be any alliance to anything but government. So an alliance to God must be destroyed. That's why socialism and anti-religion go together.” NeedsReasonGovernmentTogetherDestructionSocialismDestroyedCommunismReason WhyAlliancesAntagonismAnti Religion Author:Rafael Cruz
“In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.” WantKindGovernmentDependsSlaveAll KindsRegulationSocialistTaxationRestrictionAlliancesSocialist Government Author:Rafael Cruz
“[Donald Trump] attitude towards our longest defense alliance and NATO, that we should somehow walk away from it.” ShouldWalksAttitudeTrumpDefenseAlliancesNato Author:Hillary Clinton
“The co-opting of the environmental movement by the petroleum industry had a shattering effect. It crushed nascent biofuel businesses, killed research, cut off critical funding, stopped the building of new infrastructure, dissolved powerful alliances and seeded America with doubt over our ability to free ourselves from petroleum.” AmericaAbilityPowerfulDoubtCuttingEffectsMovementBuildingIndustryResearchEnvironmentalCriticalInfrastructureFundingCrushedAlliancesShatteringPetroleumBiofuels Author:Josh Tickell
“"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us.” IfsWould BeAmericaMovingPoliticalSawsPositionRedChinaAlliances Author:William S. Burroughs
“The EU treaties clearly promote an alliance of national states that, as far as possible, maintain their own responsibilities. There is no mention of a centralized state of Europe in the treaties. The EU Commission's politicking, however, is proof of a certain allergy against this principle of national states and national responsibilities.” StatesCertainResponsibilityPrinciplesEuropeProofAlliancesTreatiesAllergies Author:Jaroslaw Kaczynski
“There are historic examples where a soft domination of certain states worked well. For instance the US, who dominated the Western alliance after World War II - with a giant army, an enormous population, and its globally superior economic power. This role is quite different for Germany today.” WorldWellsDifferentWarStatesTodayCertainRolesEconomicExampleArmyWesternPopulationEnormousSuperiorsInstanceWar Of The WorldsGiantsGermanyWorld War IiWorld War IDominationHistoricAlliancesEconomic Power Author:Jaroslaw Kaczynski
“A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we should respond to. It's not often about a policy. And that's why what you get is this strange coalition of different views of what the future should be, coming together in alliance to protest against the status quo.” ShouldDifferentMomentsTogetherLeftViewsPolicyStrangeProtestStatus QuoAlliancesCoalitionsComing TogetherLeft And RightDifferent Views Author:Tony Blair
“[Hillary Clinton] showed, while in the Senate, that ability to connect and reach across and to forge alliances. I think she will be better [than Barack Obama]. But I think the problem with connecting emotionally with the people remains at large is - in a wholesale way.” PeopleThinkingWayProblemAbilityRemainsClintonBarackSenateConnectingAlliancesWholesale Author:Mark Shields
“The Western alliance should have supported the Sunni opposition against the Assad regime from the beginning. As far as Iraq is concerned, if it had stayed stable the way it was in 2008, IS would not have been able to expand in Iraq the way they did. The mistake was that Barack Obama withdrew the armed forces from Iraq too fast.” IfsWayShouldHas BeensAbleForceMistakeConcernedShould HaveWesternIraqBarackOppositionRegimesStableAlliancesArmed ForcesAssad Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“NATO is still the most remarkable alliance in history. It stuck together through 40 years of Cold War, and it then joined together to fight in Afghanistan. In the 1980s, I would not have thought this was going to be possible.” YearsStillsWarTogetherFightingColdStuckRemarkableAfghanistanCold WarAlliancesNato Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“We need additional funding for more U.S. combat brigades in Europe. NATO needs to continue to modernize. It is starting to show with the Russians but these exercises are central to show that the alliance is firm, especially as the E.U. starts to have some weakness on the economic front.” NeedsShowsEconomicFrontsExerciseWeaknessEuropeStartingFirmCombatFundingAlliancesNato Author:Michael Leiter
“Jupiter was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish star appended to its side. This is called "an alliance."” ScienceStarsSidesMoonAlliancesJupiter Author:Gan De
“Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration.” JewInterpretationJudaismDemonstrationAlliancesReciprocalFreemasonry Author:Leon V. DePoncins
“While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups, he has in a more fundamental sense concealed the real goal - getting judges who will ratify an ever-expanding scope of the power of the federal government and an ever-declining restraint by the Constitution of the United States. This is consistent with everything else that Obama has done in office and is consistent with his decades-long track record of alliances with people who reject the fundamentals of American society.” PeopleWantLongRealStatesDoneHandsGovernmentCertainGoalPresidentUnitedUnited StatesRecordsGroupsJudgingOfficeEmpathyConstitutionFundamentalsTrackDecadesBarackConsistentRejectsRestraintFederal GovernmentExpandingScopeAlliancesConcealedPresident Barack ObamaAmerican SocietyConstitution Of The United StatesTrack Record Author:Thomas Sowell
“I worked on "Tree of Life." It was just magical. It was like a little family. A fleeting, beautiful alliance to forge something meaningful. It was amazing, like a transcendental experience to be on the set.” LittlesBeautifulTreeMeaningfulFleetingAlliancesTranscendentalTree Of Life Author:Sam Pressman
“Our alliances and partnerships are not directed against any nation.” NationsPartnershipAlliances Author:Barack Obama
“If Estonia or any member-state was invaded and Article V was not invoked, NATO will fall apart. If it fails once, the alliance will no longer exist.” IfsStatesFallFailingMembersArticlesFalling ApartAlliancesNatoEstonia Author:Toomas Hendrik Ilves
“We're working with NATO, the longest military alliance in the history of the world, to really turn our attention to terrorism.” WorldTurnsAttentionMilitaryTerrorismWorld HistoryAlliancesNato Author:Hillary Clinton
“You know, NATO as a military alliance has something called Article 5, and basically it says this: An attack on one is an attack on all. And you know the only time it's ever been invoked? After 9/11, when the 28 nations of NATO said that they would go to Afghanistan with us to fight terrorism, something that they still are doing by our side.” KnowsSaidStillsFightingNationsSidesMilitaryTerrorismAfghanistanArticlesOnly TimeAlliancesNato Author:Hillary Clinton
“Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?” WarAgeOrderColdCreatingJustifyHelpfulThis DayCold WarAlliancesNato Author:Jill Stein
“I am so proud to be running with another strong history-making woman, Hillary Clinton, to be president of the United States. I'm proud because her vision of stronger together, building an economy that works for all, not just those at the top, being safe in the world, not only with a strong military, but also strong alliances to battle terrorism and climate change, and also to build a community of respect, just like Barbara Johns tried to do 65 years ago. That's why I'm so proud to be her running mate.” WorldYearsStatesRunningTogetherStrongPresidentCommunityUnitedVisionUnited StatesEconomyMilitaryBuildingProudBattleSafeYears AgoStrongerClintonClimateClimate ChangeTerrorismMatesAlliancesBarbaraStronger TogetherHistory Making Author:Tim Kaine
“Hillary Clinton is the secretary of state who knows how to build alliances. She built the sanctions regime around the world that stopped the Iranian nuclear weapons program. And that's what an intelligence surge means, better skill and capacity, but also about our alliances.” KnowsWorldMeanStatesKnow HowSkillsWeaponsBuiltCapacityProgramClintonNuclearAround The WorldRegimesNuclear WeaponsSecretaryAlliancesSanctionsIranian Author:Tim Kaine
“The United States has kept the peace through our alliances. Donald Trump wants to tear up our alliances. I think it makes the world safer and, frankly, it makes the United States safer. I would work with our allies in Asia, in Europe, in the Middle East, and elsewhere. That's the only way we're going to be able to keep the peace.” ThinkingWorldWayWantStatesAbleUnitedUnited StatesMiddleTearsTrumpEuropeEastAlliesMiddle EastElsewhereAsiaAlliances Author:Hillary Clinton
“Socially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but letting other people be the target in that way. I think it worked until I should not have been playing that way anymore.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldHas BeensWantedStrongDecisionTargetAlliancesMaking Decisions Author:Michael Snow
“I think - particularly in terms of the destiny of Africans in North America - our destiny has also been shaped indelibly by global alliances.” ThinkingAmericaTermDestinyOur DestinyAlliancesNorth America Author:Gerald Horne
“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.” IfsWayPresidentBehindsMilitaryWallEuropeLogicEastCommunismGermanySecretaryEasternPresident BushAlliancesPledgeUkraineBerlinBack WhenNatoPolandBakersEastern EuropeUnificationBerlin WallGorbachevEast GermanyEstoniaWay Back WhenLithuaniaLatvia Author:Rashid Khalidi
“I am confident that just as a America`s commitment to the transatlantic alliance has endured for seven decades, whether it`s been under a Democratic or Republican administration, that commitment will continue including our pledge and our treaty obligation to defend every ally.” AmericaRepublicanCommitmentDemocraticSevenIncludingDecadesObligationAdministrationAlliesAlliancesPledgeTreaties Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was connected to a very popular movement of artists and intellectuals at that time towards anti fascism, and an alliance with the union movement.” WorldWarArtistPartyMovementUnionsConnectedRussiaWar Of The WorldsCommunistAlliesFascismWorld War IiWorld War IAlliancesCommunist PartyVery Popular Author:Jay Roach
“I think there's just a lot of apprehension in Australia about the Trump victory. It's not that there are - some people are supportive, of course, and some people are dismayed by it. I think one thing that draws most people together - maybe 80 percent of the people - is a very strong view of American leadership and the American alliance.” PeopleThinkingTogetherCoursesStrongViewsOne ThingTrumpVictoryDrawsPercentAustraliaVery StrongSupportiveAlliancesApprehensionDismayedAmerican Leadership Author:Richard Glover
“Trump is holding together the shakiest coalition that you could conceivably govern on. It is a conservative, populist alliance that agrees with itself on very little.” LittlesTogetherTrumpAgreeConservativeAlliancesCoalitionsPopulist Author:Van Jones
“First of all, Donald Trump cabinet or - I call it the 3-G cabinet, Goldman, generals and gazillionaires. And I think it's one of the things that for someone who has worked around the world for profit, it is different than working around the world to make sure we have strong alliances and to make sure that we are in the strongest position to protect our country.” ThinkingWorldFirstsDifferentCountryStrongPositionTrumpProtectProfitOur CountryAround The WorldStrongestAlliancesCabinets Author:Claire McCaskill
“Our alliance with our NATO partners has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy for nearly 70 years, in good times and in bad and through presidents of both parties because the United States has a fundamental interest in Europe's stability and security.” YearsHas BeensStatesPresidentInterestUnitedPartyUnited StatesSecurityPolicyEuropeFundamentalsPartnersGood TimesStabilityForeign PolicyAlliancesNatoCornerstones Author:Barack Obama
“It's important that the disparities in the living conditions cannot be allowed in this digital period to be too marked. Each and every one must be given an opportunity to participate, which is why Germany's fate in many ways depends on the firmness of its alliance with NATO, with the European Union.” WayImportantOpportunityGivenFateConditionsDependsPeriodsUnionsGermanyDigitalAlliancesEuropean UnionNatoDisparityFirmnessLiving Conditions Author:Angela Merkel
“Alliances are part of our destiny as a nation, part of our future as a nation and this is what guides me in my policy, what guides my government as a whole.” WholeGovernmentNationsDestinyPolicyGuidesOur FutureOur DestinyAlliancesGuide Me Author:Angela Merkel
“I told [ David Lange] he was crazy, because you can't have an alliance relationship if you refuse access to their ships. And the Americans wanted to punish him very severely and I intervened there and softened them somewhat. They wanted to really take some tough, reactive measures to New Zealand.” IfsWantedCrazyToughRefuseAccessShipsAlliancesNew Zealand Author:Bob Hawke
“When George Bush Senior [George HW Bush] was getting his alliance together to go into Iraq - to kick the Iraqis out of Kuwait - he rang me up. I was very close to George Bush Senior; I got to know him well as Vice President to Ronald Reagan. And George rang me up and said, "Oh, Bob," he said, "I'm having trouble with Brian [Mulroney]." He said, "He's got a big wheat trade with Iraq, and he doesn't want to upset that." I said, "You leave it with me."” KnowsWantWellsSaidBigsTogetherPresidentTroubleTradeIraqVicesUpsetKicksBobSeniorAlliancesWheatVice PresidentBrianKuwait Author:Bob Hawke
“To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesGratefulThis DayGreeceAlliances Author:Barack Obama
“In the United States and some of the other countries involved it's sort of a "five eyes" global spying alliance. That's the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. They've had a little bit of a more muscular public response. Now, they haven't been satisfying or really meaningful in any country yet. But they have been engaging.” LittlesHas BeensCountryStatesEyeBitsUnitedUnited StatesFiveHavensInvolvedLittle BitResponseMeaningfulCanadaAustraliaSatisfyingOther CountriesEngagingReally MeanAlliancesNew ZealandReally Meaningful Author:Edward Snowden
“In the '30s and '40s, the search for Hungarian national identity led famously to an alliance with Hitler and the destruction of more than a half million of the nation's Jews. And here we are now, more than 70 years later, witnessing a resurgence of xenophobia and authoritarianism, and not just in Eastern Europe.” YearsNationsHalfMillionsIdentityEuropeDestructionJewEasternAlliancesAuthoritarianismXenophobiaEastern EuropeResurgenceHungariansNational Identity Author:Susan Faludi