Administration Quote by David Brooks

Part of the people here are interested in the same thing that Putin is interested in: Putin wants to have America as an enemy.…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Trump very much wants to be liked by Putin and I think sincerely admires him. Putin doesn't know how to deal with somebody who…

— Masha Gessen

In mid-2014, 51 percent of American Republicans viewed Putin very unfavorably. Two years later, 14 percent did. By January, 75 percent of Republicans said…

— Franklin Foer

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

Putin has mobilized and gathered the desires of millions upon millions of people who have been lied to, cheated, who lost out in the…

— Svetlana Alexievich

I do have a relationship with Putin, and I can tell you that he's very interested in what we're doing here today.

— Donald Trump

Donald Trump's views on Vladimir Putin, I think, are troubling. And I don't think he fundamentally understands exactly who Vladimir Putin is or exactly…

— Marco Rubio

The things that make them similar - their machismo, their expansionary braggadocio - is going to turn them I think into bitter and dangerous…

— David Brooks

One of the things that I am concerned about is the degree to which we've seen a lot of commentary lately where there were,…

— Barack Obama

In a sense, the central problem in U.S.-Russian relations has been a form of psychological projection. Putin views foreign policy as a means of…

— Tom Malinowski

Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating…

— Alexei Navalny

“Like most regimes not based on genuine popular support in an era of open access to information, Putin’s is inherently unstable and requires vigilant…

— Gregory Feifer