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

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

In my view, [Vladimir] Putin despises the West in general and the United States in particular, both for who we are, our liberal values, and for what we`ve done, which is to take down the Soviet Empire.

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

Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems along the way, of which there are plenty. Nothing is easy. It's always rough.

I think the West is in a low point we haven`t seen since the 1930s.

There is nothing wrong when the Trump administration says it wants to find areas of common ground to work with Russia - perfectly reasonable. The question is, are you willing to pay the Russians in advance for the privilege of working with them in areas that are supposed to be of common interest, and that - I don't see the American interest in doing so.