Angela Merkel Quotes

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

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

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

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

The United States has been unable to create a post-Cold War security architecture in which Russia feels it has a stake.

For Poland, the United States is the most important ally.

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

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

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.

From the beginning [of the Cold War] our objective was not to build an empire of satellites, but of nations and regions so that they could become partners.

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

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

We can deal with Russia on counterterrorism. We have and I think we are right now. That's easy.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.

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

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.

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'

Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.

Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.

Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world.

One day we might find ourselves making an alliance with the Greeks.

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

The treaty … had absolutely nothing in the way of verification or enforcement provisions. Everybody recognized that this was a grave deficiency, but I make no apology for the treaty. We really had a choice of concluding a treaty without any verification measures or having no treaty at all.

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