Will Hurd Quotes

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

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

Nothing guides Russian policy so much as a desire for friendship with the United States.

When the Obama administration announced its 'reset' of relations with Russia in 2009, Americans never expected that it would include making Vladimir Putin the de facto U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2013.

Ever since Barack Obama had become president, the main policy of the U.S. government toward Russia had been one of appeasement.

America is not really a strong enough state for us to regard it as an enemy of Russia.

I am not in the camp of 'Russia has to be our enemy, and they have to be that way forever,' and I think sometimes we fight about from the past.

I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.

This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.

Normalization of relations with the United States should not be a reward for good behavior .... It should depend on America's interests.

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

Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.

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.

Candidate Trump held out his hand to Vladimir Putin. He rejected further U.S. intervention in Syria other than to smash ISIS.

We're in a global war, facing an enemy alliance that runs from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela.

In the '80s, we at least had the idea of diplomacy.

We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational.

Vladimir Putin hates America, he wants to hurt us. Suddenly Vladimir Putin is a good guy, Russia is okay, no it's not. Russia is evil, Russia is our enemy.

As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

The partnership between the United States and Egypt is crucial to both countries, and it can't be predicated on political manipulation and threats of withholding aid.

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.

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