Condoleezza Rice Quotes

Many in China find it perplexing that the U.S. and Russian perceptions are still so heavily influenced by the Cold War.

Tomorrow you will say Donald Trump wants to get along with Russia, this is terrible! It's not terrible. It's good.

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

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

If America could get along with Russia, that's a positive thing.

We have seen very clearly over these past years that there are quite a few people who are sceptical, or let us put it another way, are cautious about the development of Russian-American relations, but the underlying fundamental interests of the United States and Russia demand that our relations be normalised.

It's worth remembering George W. Bush, Barack Obama also came in thinking they had the magic key to better, warmer relations with Russia; those efforts ended in tears.

One of the things that I heard for years and years, never drive Russia and China together. And Obama has done that.

Unfortunately, when Trump meets with the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador, he gives more fuel to the fire.So, I think he should stop meeting with the Russian leaders. They are not our friends. They are our adversaries.

We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship - we don't want this relationship to go out of control.

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

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

The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

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

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.

The United States has been unable to create a post-Cold War security architecture in which Russia feels it has a stake.

Japan does not consider itself an ally or partner of the United States but rather a nation which for the time being is being forced by circumstances to cooperate with the United States ...

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

Today we will find most nations to be both our partners and our adversaries—sometimes simultaneously.

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.

I am not fond of the Germans by any means but at the present time it is more advantageous to use them than to challenge them. An independent Poland is very dangerous to Soviet Russia: it is an evil which, however, at the present time has also its redeeming features; for while it exists, we may safely count on Germany, because the Germans hate Poland and will at any time make common cause with us in order to strangle Poland. ..

… this whole Near East problem is not just an Arab-Israeli dispute but a problem of the influence of the West as opposed to that of the Soviet. We want no wars, but we do not want a Sovietized world.