The sense the great democracies of the world - Europe, the United States, Japan, others - are going to set the agenda for the world. [Russians] want to bring that down.

America's sanctions policy remains intact, and it will remain intact until it changes, if it does, and I'm not sure it will.

The Russians are using the tools at their disposal to weaken Western solidarity, to create doubt, to support nationalist parties, just as the old Soviets supported leftist parties. We need a united Western response to this multi-pronged threat.

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

We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts at external aggression, when they fail, usually bring on areas of internal reform.

They [Russians] are the adversary, they - we`re the adversary they love to hate.

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.