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“Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China, South Korea, and Russia.”
Junichiro Koizumi
“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.”
Ogden Nash
“I extend my hand of alliance to them,”
Atal Behari Vajpayee
“I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We started a thing called the Global Developmental Alliance -- Secretary [of State Colin] Powell announced it in 2001, ... and we now have 200 alliances between AID [Agency for International Development], foundations in the U.S. and nontraditional corporate donors who want to give their corporate money.”
Andrew Natsios