Claire McCaskill Quotes

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

Russia doesn’t like it when it is humiliated, when it is pressured.

Whenever peace—conceived as the avoidance of war—has been the primary objective of a power or group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of the most ruthless member of the international community.

Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'

Russia's partners should understand it's best not to mess with us.

The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.

The amount of military force necessary to provide reassurance depends on how dangerous people think the world is. And that I think ultimately depends upon the kinds of government that hold sway in major countries.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

America needs to be secure at home and abroad.

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.

The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

You can't give Russia the right to interfere with the internal affairs of counties in its area.... You have to drive up the cost to Russia for aggression.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

I know you Americans want a war but I'm not going to let you have it.

I spent half my life on economic relations and building relationships with allies and friends; I spent the other half of it on warfare and the Third World. Some people tell me that the mixture of economic analysis and welfare is ideal training for Wall Street.

It is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.... There is a danger that arms control will be a safety valve for an otherwise overly aggressive foreign policy.

…against the simple act of violence, words, moral indignation and world opinion are not enough.

So long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

The United States of America never goes to war because we want to, we only go to war because we have to.