Hans-Jochen Vogal Quotes

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

[America should engage in] Progressive development of regional and other collective arrangements for individual and collective self-defense

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

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

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

The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What's good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War, with the U.S. or any other country in the world.

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.

It's better to have a dialogue with your enemies than not.

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

Peace and security for the United States depend on building principled, constructive, clear-eyed relations with our former great-power adversaries.

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

Must we conclude that no enlightened self-interest will ever impel nations to look on intervals of peace as other than periods of recuperation for war? I, for one, think not.

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

Our Russian policy must not be dictated by people who have already made up their minds there is no possibility of working with the Russians and that our interests are bound to conflict and ultimately lead to war. From my point of view, this is an untenable position and can but lead to disaster.

There is an appealing moral clarity in dividing the world into friend and foe. But in reality, progress in international affairs so often demands working with those with whom we do not see eye to eye.

What might save us, me and you, is if the Russians love their children too.

If America could get along with Russia - and by the way, China and Japan and everyone. If we could get along, it would be a positive thing, not a negative thing.

Disarmament requires trust.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

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