“If Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection, I don't think it would be around.”

— Donald J. Trump

Interview on foreign policy given on 25 March 2016, published: In Donald Trump's Worldview, America Comes First, and Everybody Else Pays http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/us/politics/donald-trump-foreign-policy.html, The New York Times (26 March 2016)
2010s, 2016, March

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