“It's viewed as an anti-Russian device. Well, it's not.”

—  George W. Bush

Commenting on missile defence shield at a news conference in Kiev following talks with the Ukrainian president http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/01/bush.nato/index.html?iref=hpmostpop
2000s, 2008

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