Hope Quote by Antony Blinken

I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people,…

— Hillary Clinton

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for…

— Anonymous

I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee…

— Eskinder Nega

The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia…

— Martin Jacques

“For the majority of ordinary Russians, especially for those of a certain age who identified themselves as ‘Soviet’, the 1990s were little short of…

— Orlando Figes

America had Russia wrapped around it little pinky through the whole '90s. We did everything you told us. And we were eager to do…

— Margarita Simonyan

It is true that the U.S. could and should have been more generous as Russia made its painful transition to a market economy in…

— Richard N. Haass

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

— Martin Van Buren

If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is Russia began…

— Marvin Kalb

As far as Russia goes, they've been our partner for a long time now, since the early '90's. So you know, what's that, that's…

— Leroy Chiao

I don't think anyone in the 1990s, the late '90s, anticipated that the Putin they knew then would become the Putin we know now.

— Antony Blinken