Crimea – Quotes

I asked [my father]

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

The most successful of

The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit or of power. He was raised to the throne by the acclamations of his equals; and the title of Khan expresses, in the language of the North of Asia, the full extent of … Read more

I think Putin wants

I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He’s invaded parts of Georgia, took Crimea, southeastern Ukraine, bases in other countries. David Petraeus

There are some quite

There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people. David Nabarro

I’ll tell what reckless

I’ll tell what reckless is. What reckless is is calling [Bashar] Assad a reformer. What reckless is allowing Russia to come into Crimea and Ukraine. What reckless is is inviting Russia into Syria to team with Iran. That is reckless. And the reckless people are the folks in the White House right now. Barack Obama … Read more

To go into Ukraine

To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only have done it with a president who has shown from the very beginning that [President Obama] is living in a fantasy world…They imagine the world as a new interconnected world where climate change … Read more

I think, clearly, we

I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine. Bernie Sanders

I’m very pleased this

I’m very pleased this military engagement together with a political road map that we developed, we were able to continue. We want to bring about a political solution there. We worked very closely together [with Barack Obama] on the issue of annexation of Crimea and Russia’s attempt to actually conquer Ukraine and actually, they did … Read more

The G7 and former

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values. Angela Merkel

That`s how you end

That`s how you end up with a guy like Dan Fried, overseeing the U.S. sanctions against Russia for Russia did in Ukraine and Crimea.Russia hates those sanctions more than they love life. They hate those sanctions. So, of course, you need your toughest and most experienced guy running those sanctions. Rachel Maddow