Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems along the way, of w….

The sense the great democracies of the world - Europe, the United States, Japan, others - are going to set the agenda for the world. [Russians] want ….

[Russians would like to] undermine the West and its institutions, create doubts about NATO, create doubts about the European Union, support nationali….

The Russian myth that they broadcast to the world, and have their various surrogates in the West repeat, is that somehow the West took advantage of t….

I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was..

The same people the Americans sent over - that we sent over to advise the Russians, we also sent over to advise the Poles about how to build a post-c….

If we blunt Russian efforts now to be aggressive, we may be pleasantly surprised by the policy options that become available to us, in terms of worki….

I am not one of these people that believes that Russia is doomed, or somehow, you know, inevitably disposed to act according to its worst traditions.….

Two World Wars are sufficient and we are the ones who supported this notion of a united Europe, so there would never be another set of civil wars in ….

Russia is an aggressive revisionist power. And they are working - there's evidence they're working to interfere not just in our electoral process, bu….

The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern..

The European Union, ok, right, it has a bureaucracy, right. It`s sometimes difficult to deal with but so what? You hire a couple of people like me to….

9/11 was a genuine trauma, and President George W. Bush rallied the country. I think the Iraq war was ill-considered, but there - it was done in the ….

Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you..

At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and ….

The United States comes in 1945 and we basically blow the whistle..

ISIS is the near-term threat, and that the longer - or the mid-term challenge is managing the rise of China. There's some evidence that that's the th….

Partisanship is not part of my professional makeup..

Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other..

There are a lot of policies that don't work out that are nevertheless worth doing..

Internal reform in Russia would require a better relationship with the West..