#alliance

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

#alternative #box #break #clearly #conservative

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

#asian #did #east #east asian #europe

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.' ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#any #confrontation #does #holy #kind

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

#circulation #dangerous #deal #errors #ever

Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#critical #done #nothing #people #same

Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#dresden-files #change

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#foreign-policy #friendship #honesty #nations #peace

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

#alliance #entered #into #man #marriage

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

#cannot #deeply #each #hands #inserted

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. ↗

— Tony Blair

#business #centre #got #ground #labour