Military Quote by David Ignatius

Russia is not going to give up easily on Syria. They've had a relationship with that country since 1955. It's very close to them.

— Rashid Khalidi

I don't believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.

— Bashar al-Assad

I think it was going to be hard to work with Russians on Syria. There is some potential overlap between the U.S. and Russia…

— Richard N. Haass

First of all, I don't believe that the United States has any strategic interest in Syria. I think, from a strategic point of view,…

— John Mearsheimer

I profoundly do not believe that the United States could make things better in Syria by being there. And we have an evidentiary record…

— Ben Rhodes

I don't think that we're necessarily going to see the U.S. and Russia becoming out and out military competitors against each other.

— Kimberly Zisk Marten

America is not really a strong enough state for us to regard it as an enemy of Russia.

— Ramzan Kadyrov

Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive…

— Sergey Lavrov

Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.

— Hillary Clinton

Russia will not take part in any field operations on the territory of Syria or in other states; at least, we do not plan…

— Vladimir Putin

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

— Vladimir Putin

Russia and Iran are not going to allow the Assad regime to fall.

— Rashid Khalidi