Willy Brandt Quotes

The United States now has as its goal much more than simply containing Soviet expansionism. We seek the integration of the Soviet Union into the communlty of nations.... Ultimately, our objective is to welcome the Soviet Union back into the world order.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.

Clearly, for France in her present position, intelligent activity consists of practicing a policy of entente with Germany in order to survive

America must never accept as a final fact the division between East and West …

If Russia and the United States approach each other in starkly adversarial terms, the conflict will badly warp the foreign policy of both countries ...

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

The most important thing I would do is to try to institutionalize U.S.-Soviet summits.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

The core of detente [with Russia] is the reduction in arms.

We had to avoid wounding Austria too severely; we had to avoid leaving behind in her any unnecessary bitterness of feeling or desire for revenge; we ought rather to reserve the possibility of becoming friends again with our adversary of the moment, and in any case to regard the Austrian state as a piece on the European chessboard and the renewal of friendly relations as a move open to us. If Austria were severely injured, she would become the ally of France and of every other opponent of ours; she would even sacrifice her anti-Russian interests for the sake of revenge on Prussia.

[To Americans] diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interwar period, appeasement of Fascism.

Military security and a policy of detente are not contradictory but complementary.

The United States has better relations with the countries of Asia than any of them have with each other.

That's the problem with Russia: The world has changed. Europe is not at war, and no one wants to negotiate with us. The world has changed, but Russia prefers to pretend it has not.

Security can no longer be attained by arming ourselves against a potential enemy. Rather, security is attainable only with his cooperation.

Suppose another war on a huge scale is threatened, how can it be averted by recognizing and patching up treaties with a Power which makes not the least secret--and the frankness of the actual Soviet leaders we must admit--of its desire and intention to smash our whole system of civilization, including Christianity.

It’s not in our interest to drive the Russians into a beleaguered attitude where they have to prove what they can do.