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Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving? -- Ronald Reagan
Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table. -- Leonid Brezhnev
No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran. -- Stephen Kinzer
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union. -- Robert Dallek
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. -- Golda Meir
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
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. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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