Chuck Fleischmann Quotes

I'm very concerned about the countries bordering Russia. But let's stay off that stuff.

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

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

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.

Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer.

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

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

China, North Korea's last ally in the world has just voted agaisnt them [in the United Nations]. What would you do if you thought every country in the world was against you and you wanted to survive? You would buy insurance. And the best insurance you could get to prevent invasion would be nuclear weapons, and that is just what North Korea has done. So now, when the President [Trump] threatens them, what do they do? They go out and buymore insurance.

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.

The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically.

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.

I don't believe that Russia's a threat for Europe. I think that's a big scam.

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

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

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union.

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

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.

Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.