Changed Quote by Boris Yeltsin

Let's be clear: Has the U.S. ever made any mistakes? Of course.Is the U.S. at all like [Vladimir] Putin's regime? Not at all.

— Benjamin E. Sasse

Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s.

— Sergey Karaganov

The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in…

— Anne Applebaum

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

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

— Daniel Fried

Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes...…

— Mao Zedong

Indeed, for Russia, inconsistency is an integral part of its foreign policy strategy, particularly under Putin.

— Fiona Hill

It has been known for some time that a major nuclear war might lead to nuclear winter that would destroy the attacker as well…

— Noam Chomsky

My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's only now…

— Jimmy Carter

I do not believe that Russians changed the outcome of the election. I want to be clear about that. But I do think that…

— Marco Rubio

After the fall of Communism, the biggest mistake Boris Yeltzin's regime made was not to disband the KGB altogether. Instead it changed its name…

— Gerard Batten

Russia would prefer to rebuild trust rather than allow it to further corrode. That's why, in July 2007, President Putin, in the spirit of…

— Sergei Lavrov