Angela Merkel Quotes

A strong Germany is an indispensable condition for a durable peace in Europe.

United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

A stable world may be one in which the United States can act to secure peace without fear of a nuclear attack.

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

Germany will never break the peace of its own accord.

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.

The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Germany has traditionally played a very constructive role regarding E.U. ties with Russia and the West as a whole with Russia.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

Our foreign policy has been inspired by two simple principles: the determination to place France's interests above all others, and the conviction that France has no greater interest than that of peace.

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

... the greatest moral victory in the history of civilization if it actually keeps out of a war.

Only by decisions of national policy based upon accurate information can we have the chance that peace will endure.

The main aim of any American President is to prevent World War III.

He had rather spend 100,000 pounds on Embassies to keep or procure peace with dishonor, than 100,000 pounds on an army that would have forced peace with honor.

It’s not a very nice solution, but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war

The Mutual Security Act was intended not to fight a war but to prevent a war.

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

So long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

History asks of us that we never act unilaterally, never alone, but only within the alliances of NATO, the United Nations and the European Union as it is clearly specified in international law

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.