Bill Browder Quotes

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

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad?

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine's economy.

The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

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

The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.

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

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.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

Great powers engage.

I should drag in the United States.

If Americans are entitled to hit Iraq unilaterally, then why isn't Russia entitled to the same with respect to Georgia? Why is China not entitled to the same with respect to some other neighboring country which, according to Chinese views, may be supporting insurrection in Tibet or Shenyang? Why, say, India is not entitled to hit Pakistan, which openly supports terrorists in Kashmir and which has nuclear weapons, and which has a very fragile domestic situation under which fundamentalists any day can come to power

…sanctions applied to a large nation meant war. They bred “incurable hatreds”.

[Vladimir] Putin trampled on international rules and sovereignty of the Ukraine.

Sanctions on Pakistan have been part of the troubled U.S.-Pakistan relationship in the past and should not be considered as an option in the future.

Russia's actions in Syria are not the only reasons to distrust Mr. Putin. Moscow has opposed attempts by the U.N. in November 2011 to increase sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear program.

Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia's interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant.

Defending human rights should be an important objective of foreign policy, and that, too, will sometimes be hard to reconcile with an economic agenda, especially when it comes to dealing with rich but repressive players like China and Russia.

I am not afraid of Putin, so I go and challenge him on the elections.

I would never call myself an expert on geopolitics. I'm not studied in it. But what I do know is what's right and wrong in terms of treatment of people.

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