Action Quote by Clarissa Ward

I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a…

— Jeb Bush

President Trump understands that President Putin does not like to be insulted. Putin takes it very personally. He harbors a grudge. He doesn't forget.…

— Fiona Hill

The relationship that we have with Russia is solely because of Putin. What he's done is an affront to the American people to try…

— Bob Corker

The Russians will always find a pretext for their aggression. It was Putin who said in 2005 that the biggest geopolitical disaster of the…

— Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Putin described Kiev is the mother of Russian cities. These - the Russian people view Ukraine as an extension of Russia. And so there…

— Clarissa Ward

My impression is that Putin feels that he can basically manipulate the West to do what he ultimately wants to achieve, and that he…

— Leon Panetta

I don't have a lot of hope for Russia when Putin goes, because I think that the kind of damage that has been done…

— Masha Gessen

We need to send a message to Vladimir Putin through stronger sanctions. We need him to understand that the sanctions that we put in…

— Kelly Ayotte

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

— Kelly Ayotte

For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a…

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

You can see the actions that the Russians are trying to take in eastern Ukraine. And so it's so important that we take actions…

— Kelly Ayotte