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

Our mistakes, blunders, flaws, and shortcomings notwithstanding, the world America made after 1945 and 1989 has enjoyed the longest period of general peace in the west since Roman times, and decades of prosperity.

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

Two World Wars are sufficient and we are the ones who supported this notion of a united Europe, so there would never be another set of civil wars in Europe again, ever. That was a fabulous success. It was so fabulous that people now take it for granted.

The United States comes in 1945 and we basically blow the whistle.

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

[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don`t mean bring us down as in collapse, but bring us down a notch in a big way.