We are ready to meet [with Donald Trump] at any time, this is no problem for us, but I believe we should be patient and wait for the complicated process of forming the new administration to be complete.

Challenging American leadership is not at stake.

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake.

If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.

The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.