Choices Quote by Steve Inskeep

What Donald Trump is determined to do, as someone who has spent a lifetime looking for deals, is to see if we can have…

— Mike Pence

What you have in President Trump is someone who is willing to, and is, in fact, engaging the world, including Russia, and saying, where…

— Mike Pence

The president-elect seems to want Russia as a friend. President Obama arguably has not wanted to say that Russia is that great of a…

— Steve Inskeep

Russia remains an adversary to the United States. We have some overlapping interests. It would be better if our relationship was better. But our…

— Tom Cotton

My hope is that the president-elect [Donald Trump] coming in takes a similarly constructive approach, finding areas where we can cooperate with Russia, where…

— Barack Obama

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

My hope is the Trump administration will approach Russia strategically, with a clear purpose of trying to find more common ground, but without giving…

— John F. Kerry

Donald Trump recognizes that a good leader is going to protect America's interests by making sure that we have a relationship with Russia: that…

— Sean Spicer

I'm concerned about Donald Trump's relationship with Russia that ignores Russia's aggressiveness in its near abroad. I'm concerned about the willingness to question alliances…

— James Franklin Jeffrey

Like Reagan, President Trump strives for good relations with all nations, including Russia. But no nation, including Russia, should doubt the president's commitment to…

— Robert C. O'Brien

While pursuing those relations with Russia, which are important - Russia is an important country - it is also important to stand by your…

— Philip Gordon

We have to have a president who is clear that you don't deal with Russia based on staring into his eyes and seeing his…

— Barack Obama