Bring Quote by Wesley Clark

Russia wants stability along its Western borders, neighbors who treat their Russian minorities with respect and prosperous trading partners. NATO enlargement promotes such developments.

— Antony Blinken

Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia.

— James G. Stavridis

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

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

I have no illusions. Of course, Russia is massively upgrading its military. We know that Russia is pursuing a policy of expansion. This is…

— Martin Schulz

In the longer run, I happen to think that Russia really has no choice but to become gradually more associated with the Euro-Atlantic community.…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Russia's only real geostrategic option - the option that would give Russia a realistic international role and also maximize the opportunity of transforming and…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.

— George Packer

In the event that we don't want to lose the Far East and Siberia, we need a united Europe.

— Garry Kasparov

The United States really only accounts for about 3 percent of the economic engagement with Russia. Europe is 40 percent, and so Europe's contribution…

— Susan Rice

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

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