We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts at external aggress….

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

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

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….

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 ….

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….

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….

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 ….

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.….

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

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….

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

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….

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 ….

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

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..

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 ….

We intend to leave it without further discussion. We respect this request by the government of Uzbekistan.

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

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