Mitch McConnell Quotes

I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.

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

If Russia and the United States approach each other in starkly adversarial terms, the conflict will badly warp the foreign policy of both countries ...

I believe that Trump is a danger. I believe that he wants to tighten and build up his relationship to Russia for whatever reasons.

Russia is not our friend.

I'm very concerned about the countries bordering Russia. But let's stay off that stuff.

The trouble with Russia is not that she is socialist but that she is Russia.

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

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

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.

Great powers engage.

Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most nonallied.

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

The overall or political objective is to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and British Empire.

Sanctions will not produce capitulation.

It’s not in our interest to drive the Russians into a beleaguered attitude where they have to prove what they can do.

But we cannot expect the Soviet Union to show restraint in the face of United States weakness or irresolution. As long as I am president, we will not permit detente to become a license to fish in troubled waters. Detente must be, and I trust will be, a two-way street.

Sanctions on Pakistan have been part of the troubled U.S.-Pakistan relationship in the past and should not be considered as an option in the future.

Vladimir Putin is not our friend and never has been.

Russia is not a threat to France - why should I be hostile to Russia.