At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.

Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

We intend to leave it without further discussion. We respect this request by the government of Uzbekistan

Partisanship is not part of my professional makeup.

Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.

Ronald Reagan reached out to Gorbachev. At the same time, we were pushing back against the Soviets all over the world. He was able to do two things at once, and it worked out very well for us.

The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.

I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was.

No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.

Be careful about a policy generated with enthusiasm in the rush of a moment. It usually doesn't turn out well.

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

A true believer is a danger to humanity.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.

Ultimately, we have to have the wall on the border. If we don't have the wall, we are doing nothing.

Some people just join the military because they need college money. Then they're idiots and college wasn't going to help.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd So many English kings.

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.