Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.
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.
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
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.
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
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.
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.
Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.
We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.
If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.