David Miliband

I would also like to see this as an opportunity to extend the refugee resettlement program to Ukrainians, so that they are given a chance to rebuild their lives here.

There are well founded reports of effective war crimes that are being committed in the shelling of civilian areas.

The fact that Russia should today be turned into a pariah state is a very significant change in the balance that’s existed over certainly over the Cold War, of the post-Cold War period.

This is a really great moment not just for Europe, but for the global order because this is impunity many times over and it`s close to home.

In this case, I think Europe needs the 27, plus, I would argue the U.K. even though it`s left the E.U. to agree to share out the refugee responsibility.

In this crisis, there`s been unity, not division.

In terms of the politics, there`s something quite striking going on, which is that Europe has been bitterly divided over refugee issues over the last five years.

Iran and Russia are not natural allies.

This global system that we have, this global order that we have, for all of its faults, is upheld by American leadership.

America helps create a more stable world, and American retreat leads to more instability that is not just an affront to America's moral values but also to her interests.

There can be no effective foreign policy without effective humanitarian policy.

The impotence of that and the message that sends about the impotence of the international institutions and the unwillingness of the nations that are members of those institutions to do anything to back up their words--that is incredibly…