You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense of global foreign policy. Nowadays, on the other hand, there are politicians who represent pretty powerful countries, but whose citizens are not prepared to sacrifice themselves for the state.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.