Jens Stoltenberg Quotes

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

I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a Soviet Union armed to the teeth. I think we're going to get along fine with Russia, and I don't see them as internationally ambitious.

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

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

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

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

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

Anybody who says it is in America's interest to not have better relations with Russia doesn't know what they're talking about when it comes to geopolitics.

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.

I don't know who wants war in America, but I was very happy when Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War by reaching out to Russia. And - and they ended up discarding their Marxist Leninist baloney that had threatened the world for so long.

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.

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

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.

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

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

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.

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

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

Mr. President, we can't advise you properly on what we should seek with the Soviets until we know what we're planning for on our side.

We have to develop preventive diplomacy.

We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?

One hour ago, President Johnson informed me that Egyptian forces are preparing an attack on Israeli positions and that this attack is to be launched. If such a thing happens, then the United States will consider itself freed from the commitments it gave to the USSR to exercise restraint.