"The people working at the White House at the time are friends of mine, and they're friends of mine to this day. I don…"

"Correlation is not causation, as we like to say here at Stanford, and the fact that I arrived in the middle of that h…"

"I'm 100 percent for lifting sanctions on Russia, provided they change their behavior for why the sanctions were put i…"

"It’s incumbent upon all people to believe in the facts and to keep pushing it. You can’t constrain free speech, but y…"

"I hope that from crisis and tragedy comes engagement. Don’t just complain about [an issue], do something about it! Do…"

"We're not good at point predictions. But we are pretty good at some long-term trajectory things, over hundreds of yea…"

"We got to get our democracy in order at home, but we can walk and chew gum at the same time. Two wrongs do not make a…"

"There is a big academic literature on under what conditions sanctions work and don’t work, on when they can change th…"

"If both China and Russia were liberal democracies, I don’t think we would be having conversations about great power c…"

"Today, however, Russia and China are united as autocracies. They do have this ideological connection. Both countries …"