Convinced Quote by Viktor Orban

We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into…

— Boris Yeltsin

I don't believe that Russia's a threat for Europe. I think that's a big scam.

— Marine Le Pen

We still believe that if the Russian Federation and the United States bring their minds together, we can develop a common system which would…

— Sergei Lavrov

It is unconscionable for Russia to force Ukrainian citizens into Russia, and put them in what will basically be concentration and prisoner camps.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Russia is a European country, and so we'd better, if we want a powerful Europe, negotiate with Russia.

— Marine Le Pen

Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation.

— Valentina Matviyenko

When vital interests are at stake, countries are invariably willing to suffer great pain to ensure their security. There is no reason to think…

— John Mearsheimer

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The real concern for the Russians is that they're going to get closed out, that there's gong to be a new 'Iron Curtain'... for…

— Fiona Hill

This, for instance, is what Egon Bahr said on June 26, 1990: "If we do not now undertake clear steps to prevent a division…

— Vladimir Putin

We had a simple choice: Either betray our values or keep our values and leave Russia to try to do something new.

— Pavel Durov

The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise.…

— Adam Michnik