Affair Quote by Dmitry Peskov

This is a perverted perception of ambassador's job to say that every contact with a Russian ambassador is potentially dangerous and potentially can put…

— Dmitry Peskov

I think there was certainly contact between the Trump campaign and Russians, which is perfectly normal. All campaigns in the modern age have contact…

— Masha Gessen

I have never met with or had any conversation with any Russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign…

— Jeff Sessions

Why would there be any contacts with Russian between the presidential campaign? This is all a distraction, and it's all part of a narrative…

— Mike Pence

People everywhere in the world have Russian connections. There is nothing wrong with having Russian connections as long as you're transparent about it.

— Kersti Kaljulaid

In the United States national security interests to have a working relationship with Russia.

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

Anybody who says it is in America's interest to not have better relations with Russia doesn't know what they're talking about when it comes…

— Sebastian Gorka

I saw the relation with Russia as necessary to the U.S., for the interests of the U.S. We worked very closely with them on…

— Michael T. Flynn

The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.

— Vladimir Putin

Even heads of our own security agency said, you know, we need to take a deep breath on this. This really doesn't seem to…

— Jill Stein

I made it very clear that the United States will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections, and the Russian side committed not to…

— Robert C. O'Brien

It is well known, widely known that the US President-elect [Donald Trump] has publicly spoken in favour of normalising Russian-American relations. We cannot but…

— Vladimir Putin