Create Quote by Sergei Lavrov

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the…

— Vladimir Putin

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

We need additional funding for more U.S. combat brigades in Europe. NATO needs to continue to modernize. It is starting to show with the…

— Michael Leiter

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

— John Mearsheimer

We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a…

— Warren Christopher

I think NATO needs to be looked at.

— Jill Stein

We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to…

— Malcolm Nance

Ever since the end of the Cold War, it has been our paramount interest in Europe to strengthen NATO and to extend it -…

— Tom Malinowski

A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest.

— John McCain

The E.U.'s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation with Russia.

— Sergei Lavrov

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might…

— Warren Christopher

There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.

— Jill Stein