Country Quote by Barack Obama

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

— Phil Donahue

The way I think of it is that Russia is not going to change fundamentally. They may change tactics; they may look at their…

— Kurt Volker

America is stronger than Russia. Our economy is 16 times larger than the Russian economy.

— Mike Pence

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

— Ivan Krastev

We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to…

— Warren Christopher

We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.

— Lloyd Austin

Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has embarked on a systematic challenge to the West. The goal is to weaken the bonds between Europe and the…

— Ivo Daalder

Russia is a very different place than what we in the West are familiar with. We cannot apply our own values and judgments to…

— Courtney Act

“The peoples of the Soviet Union, in many respects, impress me as people who can not yet afford to be honest. When they can…

— Audre Lorde

It sometimes seems to me that some of our Western partners do not want Russia to fully recover. They would like Russia to be…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

— Garry Kasparov