Arthur Hays Sulzberger Quotes

NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.

The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so.

I will protect and defend France's vital interests. I will protect and defend Europe.

The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

The only thing wrong with NATO is that we don't belong to it.

The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.

The security of Western Europe rests ultimately on the trustworthiness of the American commitment.

If any part of the U.S. armed forces, which is the biggest armed forces in the world, was withdrawn from Europe, that would be very detrimental to European security.

NATO is still the most remarkable alliance in history. It stuck together through 40 years of Cold War, and it then joined together to fight in Afghanistan. In the 1980s, I would not have thought this was going to be possible.

The amount of military force necessary to provide reassurance depends on how dangerous people think the world is. And that I think ultimately depends upon the kinds of government that hold sway in major countries.

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

I don't think Russia could start a war by attacking any of the NATO member states.

I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that.

I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn't.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans.

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.