Mike Braun Quotes

I do believe that Russia is a major threat to the United States in Ukraine and around the world, and our oath requires us to put our country first, always.

A person that's going to be super, super tough on Russia is President Donald J. Trump.

When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.

We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.

President-elect Donald Trump has a host of national security challenges to deal with as he assumes office, from the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan to the grinding Syrian civil war to the flexing of Russian muscles under President Vladimir Putin to how to deal with ISIS as the terrorist army retreats in Iraq.

Even if you have presidents like FDR dealing with someone like Stalin, with whom he didn't exactly all the time disagree... He wasn't always in lockstep saying Stalin was wonderful all the time. Donald Trump never criticizes Putin.

Mitt Romney had it right in 2012 when he told President Barack Obama that Russia was 'without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe.'

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

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

In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

We need somebody ready to be commander-in-chief on day one, who understands there are no moderates in Iran; they've been killed a long time ago.

After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called 'containment,' but the question is, containment of what?

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba - but it is undoubtedly the most self-defeating.

By linking these countries together in his 'axis of evil' speech, President Bush implied an identity between them not only in terms of their threat, but also in terms of the action necessary to deal with the threat. A lot of work will now need to be done to delink the three, and to show why military action against Iraq is so much more justified than against Iran and North Korea.

Great powers engage.

We ought to nuke North Korea right about now just to give the world a warning.

The overall or political objective is to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and British Empire.

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.

We must effectively counter Moscow's attempts at influence with American strength and resolve, certainly not with a weak approach to President Putin or with any relief from sanctions.