Oleg Deripaska Quotes

I want to try to become friends with Russia.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

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

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.

And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

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.

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.

The only things that matter in the world are Japan and China, Russia and Europe. Latin America doesn’t matter…. And … there’s nothing you can do about the Middle East.

The United States has better relations with the countries of Asia than any of them have with each other.

That's the problem with Russia: The world has changed. Europe is not at war, and no one wants to negotiate with us. The world has changed, but Russia prefers to pretend it has not.

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

Anybody who says it is in America's interest to not have better relations with Russia doesn't know what they're talking about when it comes to geopolitics.

In my view, Russia has not been a particularly collaborative player on the world stage.

As our relationship with China grows and matures, tensions will naturally emerge.

I believe some of the tensions the U.S. has had with Russia and that the Europeans have had with Russia... China is taking advantage of some of those dealings.

Russia is not a friendly character on the world stage.

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

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

Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.

Maybe some Ukrainians would like to have Sweden or Canada for a neighbor, but we have Russia.

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a Soviet Union armed to the teeth. I think we're going to get along fine with Russia, and I don't see them as internationally ambitious.

It's better to get along with Russia than not.