Tina Brown Quotes

You look at what Vladimir Putin is doing with President Obama. He's, like, toying with him. He's toying with him.

I don't think Mr. Putin has our best interests at heart.

Putin is very - not the smartest guy in the world.

I think I'd have a good relationship with Putin. Who knows? He's been a leader far more than Barack Obama has been a leader.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president.

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.

Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.

Obama has made incredibly poor decisions that have made us less safe.

I am somebody who respects Putin highly, but I'm not somebody who is against America.

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

Netanyahu must mend fences with Obama.

Trump very much wants to be liked by Putin and I think sincerely admires him. Putin doesn't know how to deal with somebody who positions himself like that.

I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise - it just doesn't seem to impress Moscow at all.

I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Putin. And I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russia.

I think what President [Barack] Obama has done is to chart a steady course. When I was there, the first four years we had a lot of cleanup to do. We inherited a lot of bad feelings from the [George W.] Bush administration, and much of what I spent my time doing was traveling around the world reassuring friends and allies.

So [Vladimir] Putin is a mess. He's committed all sort of murderous thuggery, and I am opposed to the way Putin conducts himself in world affairs, and I hope that the president also wants to show moral leadership about this issue.

Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but counterproductive and untrue to those values they were meant to defend. In fact neither man demonstrated much faith in those values.

I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.

I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.