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

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.

America is not an ethnostate. We are not rooted in blood and soil.

[Donald Trump administration] didn`t ask me to stay and 40 years seemed like enough.

My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire and the putting in order of what came after - the building of a Europe whole, free, and at peace. It`s hard to recall today how improbable victory in the Cold War appeared.

I am not against working with Russia in areas of common interests at the same time. We're smart enough, or we should be smart enough to have a dual track policy. You know, walk and chew gum at the same time.

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