Adherence Quote by Noam Chomsky

President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're not going…

— Rashid Khalidi

[Mikhail] Gorbachev complained. He was told look, there's nothing on paper. People didn't actually say it but the implication was look, if you are…

— Noam Chomsky

Okay, NATO expanded to East Berlin and East Germany. Under [Bill] Clinton NATO expanded further, to the former Russian satellites. In 2008 NATO formally…

— Noam Chomsky

You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand…

— Warren Christopher

As the Cold War came to a close, Soviet leaders preferred that U.S. forces remain in Europe and NATO stay intact, an arrangement they…

— John Mearsheimer

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

— Sergei Lavrov

In the eyes of Russian leaders, E.U. expansion is a stalking horse for NATO expansion.

— John Mearsheimer

Right at the beginning of all of this [Ukraine to join NATO], serious senior statesmen, people like [George] Kennan for example and others warned…

— Noam Chomsky

I think if NATO haven't expanded, we would have a no-man's zone between the E.U. and NATO and Russia, and that would be very…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

NATO expansion, E.U. expansion, and turning Ukraine and Georgia and other countries into liberal democracies were all about creating a giant zone of peace…

— John Mearsheimer

[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.

— Vladimir Putin

Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the…

— Vladimir Putin