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“We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.”

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Author:Li Peng

“The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.”

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Author:Breyten Breytenbach

“The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“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.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“Look, I don't mind if the President sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he prefaces his remarks as we just saw by saying we have to put politics aside, posing again as the one person in the country who rises above partisanship and party, speaks for the national interest, it's really grating.”

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Author:Charles Krauthammer

“The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever together by common democratic values and traditions. This will never change.”

“A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.”

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Book:Crossing the Line: Being the Second Volume of Autobiography

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“Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?”

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Author:Roger Wicker

“The notion that the UN is some sort of dispassionate body that, “does right” and just pursues everybody’s best interests is a fantasy. Each individual nation will be pursuing their best interests. That’s the normal behavior of nation-states. It shouldn’t surprise us, but neither should we go to them for permission to do what’s in our national interests.”

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Author:Mona Charen

“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”

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Author:Larry Speakes

“Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?”

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Author:Paul Keating

“If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.”

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Author:Abdallah II