Brent Scowcroft Quotes

Russia is not our friend.

Russia is not our friend.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.

If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one.

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

When a rising power confronts a ruling power, bad things usually happen.... This is what happens when an extablished entity faces an upstart.... To avoid a disasterous clash like war, both parties have to make an adjustment, but the ruling power has to make more painful adjustments.

In the end, believe me, there will be no friendship between Trump and Putin.

You know, Russia brings it on. People don't want to be Russia hawk. People would like - that's what the president always says: We would like to get along with Russia. But what Russia is doing makes it really hard.

The West's sanctions are not aimed at helping Ukraine, but at geo-politically pushing Russia back. They are foolish and are merely harming both sides.

America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.

Part of the people here are interested in the same thing that Putin is interested in: Putin wants to have America as an enemy. Part of Americans want to have Russia as an enemy. It's advantageous. The other part of the people are just ordinary people. And these people project onto big objects the kind of relations that they have with small objects in their everyday lives.

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

It's not appealing to deal with countries that express hatred towards us.

All governments require enemy governments.

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

No other people, as a whole, is entirely our enemy. No people at all … is entirely our friend.

This Middle East thing is maddening.

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

We send billions of taxpayer dollars abroad and what do we get in return? Disrespect, disdain, and ultimately violence.

Frankly I'm a bit concerned when it comes to U.S.-China relations.