Sellapan Ramanathan Quotes

Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations.

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

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed.

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.

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

I am a Soviet officer. I wish to meet with an American officer with the object of offering certain services.

I see no reason why France and Britain should not have excellent relations - we are old allies.

If we look at where relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were in 1945 and where we stand now, then we have achieved so much.

Without Kissinger's work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Agreements five years later would have happened. His achievements over detente, the seeds of trust he sowed in a very distrustful and hostile Moscow, helped over a long period.

I will strengthen the South Korea-U.S. alliance.

Our commitment to our extensive security cooperation with vital international partners, like India, remains steadfast.

Pakistan has done some really terrible things, and yet they also have facilitated our military capabilities in ways that are critical to our country.

I want to thank the American people - on both sides of the aisle - for years of financial, diplomatic, and military support, and for helping us carry the burden of defense.

France has been maintaining a very special relationship with India on defence matters.

Germany's path to greater military assertiveness has not been linear, and it never will be. Germans do not believe that talking at roundtables solves every problem, but neither do they think that shooting does.

The Japan-U.S. alliance is the cornerstone of the peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region.

As a national security aid, I worked with our military to strengthen our national defense.

Trump very much wants to be liked by Putin and I think sincerely admires him. Putin doesn't know how to deal with somebody who positions himself like that.

We must immediately find the way to come and say to the U.S., 'Despite the difficult differences of opinion between us, there are no closer friends, and no better allies than you to us, and we to you.'

In my judgment, us assisting the Chinese military in advancing technologically is not in U.S. national interests.

But I would not refuse a meeting with Putin. I would like to spend a week with Putin, so that I could better understand him.

I will engage in sincere negotiations with the United States and China to find a solution to the THAAD problem.

We've had Vice President Pence visiting Tallinn, where he met not only with me but also with my other Baltic colleagues - Lithuanian President Ms. Grybauskaite and Latvian President Mr. Vejonis. And, of course, Vice President Pence has been very clear that NATO acts as a whole. Attack against one is attack against all.

German predominance is not all-encompassing. In foreign affairs and military matters, for instance, France and Britain still play a much bigger role. But across a large swathe of European policy, Germany has become much more than a first among equals.