Conor Lamb Quotes

While Democrats, including Barack Obama, mocked the notion that Russia is the greatest threat to our country, nobody has been tougher on Russia and Vladimir Putin than President Donald Trump.

No matter what President Trump says, Russia is an adversary and a threat - look no further than their invasion of Crimea.

Everyone knows: if Russia threatens Ukraine and also has its sights on other states, this concerns the global security of Europe.

Mitt Romney had it right in 2012 when he told President Barack Obama that Russia was 'without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe.'

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

Taking into consideration that we are involved in Russia's orbit, any coughing there will produce painful economic and political convulsions here.

Neoconservatives believe that we can only be defined by having an enemy.

We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.

These four mongrels are supposed to be our defense against Communism and the extremes of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East.

… international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

Unless we get serious about addressing Iran's regional ambitions in places like Syria, then our allies are never going to be confident that we have a strategy for the region.

A person that's going to be super, super tough on Russia is President Donald J. Trump.

World's major powers, including China and Russia, don't want to 'finance' American military adventures anymore.

I think Russia is dangerous, not a superpower. I know what the president is trying to say. I worked for him for five years, not just two.He doesn't want us to overreact. He doesn't want to go back to the Cold War and some superpower competition. But my own view, and I think General Mattis stated something similar today, is that Russia is a challenge for the United States. It is a threat to some of our allies.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political.

In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?

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.

President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.