David Miliband: “This is a mission that is essential. It's a necessary mission and it's one that needs to be explained to people.”

Iran and Russia are not natural allies.

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.

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

this trend has been going on for about 15 years, that the Ukraine crisis is the capstone of this age of impunity, and it needs to bring a reaction like of which has not happened since the Second World War.