69 Quotes by Fiona Hill

In the instance of Iran for Russia, Iran is a very important counterweight to the Sunni Muslim powers in the Gulf, but Russia's always been very concerned about potentially proselytizing and supporting groups inside of the Russian federation itself.

Calling Trump 'Putin's puppet' is a sign of the weakness of the American political system. It appears so weak and fragile that outsiders can actually meddle about in it.

The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016.

We have politicized the issue of Russia to a point that we can't have a sensible conversation about it.

Absolutely everything I've done - my research, my training, my book - was made possible due to Harvard opening doors and providing me with connections.

So Putin is not the dictator that he's often accused of being. He has to be very sensitive to public opinion.

The Russians didn't invent partisan divides. The Russians haven't invented racism in the United States. But the Russians understand a lot of those divisions and they understand how to exploit them.

President Trump understands that President Putin does not like to be insulted. Putin takes it very personally. He harbors a grudge. He doesn't forget. And he will find some way of getting some degree of revenge as a result of that.

So with President Obama, he's a very different style. Very thoughtful, posed.