Communication Quote by Bashar al-Assad

We have politicized the issue of Russia to a point that we can't have a sensible conversation about it.

— Fiona Hill

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a…

— Chuck Hagel

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might…

— Warren Christopher

If our interests - our legitimate interests, the interests of Russians - have been attacked directly, like they were in South Ossetia, for example,…

— Sergei Lavrov

With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault.…

— Ronald Reagan

You can talk all you want about Russia, which is all a, you know, fake news fabricated deal to try to make up for…

— Donald Trump

I would much rather engage people in a conversation about deregulation and reversals of women's rights and civil rights and LGBT rights than conversations…

— Masha Gessen

Russia doesn't want to have a return to the situation where it was the United States and say Israel, making determinations about whether there…

— Fiona Hill

We desperately need in this country a discussion of American policy toward Russia. We can't keep saying an untruth, that this new Cold War…

— Stephen F. Cohen

I think the point that we all agree upon is that we have to engage with Russia.

— Samantha Power

We must engage in a whole-of-government approach to combat Russian active measures.

— Richard Burr

We shouldn't overdramatize the current disagreements with the Russians. They are real, but they're not really all that threatening. And the notion that we're…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski