Believe Quote by Maxine Waters

I really do believe that much of what coming out of Donald Trump's mouth was a play from Vladimir Putin's playbook.

— Maxine Waters

I think that Putin's strategy has been throwing a lot of money, fairly haphazardly, at a lot of projects aimed at disrupting Western relations…

— Masha Gessen

The Intelligence Community Assessment concluded first that President Putin directed and influenced a campaign to erode the faith and confidence of the American people…

— James Clapper

We do have evidence the [Donald] Trump campaign was working to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.

— Rachel Maddow

I do think the strategy of Trump, and now the Republican Party, is to eviscerate the idea of objective truth.

— Daniel Pfeiffer

I think you see a clear pattern of people in the Trump campaign coordinating with Russians.

— Mike Quigley

I think that when you saw Donald Trump absolutely calling Hillary Clinton crooked, the "lock her up, lock her up," all of that was…

— Maxine Waters

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 think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature.…

— Ashton Carter

I do think that when we're looking at Putin's actions, we really need to look further into what his point is. Because I think…

— Clarissa Ward

We`ve got [evidence] of direct Russian government connections with the [Donald] Trump campaign, during the campaign, while the Russian government was interfering in our…

— Rachel Maddow

Russian strategy seems to center on maintaining Putin's popularity at home; building a strong military capacity in special forces, nuclear weapons, and advanced submarines;…

— James G. Stavridis