The same people the Americans sent over - that we sent over to advise the Russians, we also sent over to advise the Poles about how to build a post-communist economy. Same people, same advice, with radically different results, which leads to suspicion it's not our advice which was the crucial variable. It was the Poles, on one hand, and the Russians on the other. The Poles succeeded; the Russians didn't. Don't blame us.

What [Russians] want to do is undermine the Western liberal order.

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

The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be taken literally. And the southerners in the 1850s argued that it was not.

America is not a white man's republic.

Russia despises the West. And is doing what it can to weaken the West.

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