164 Quotes on Russia

• Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

  Author: Yevgeny Yevtushenko

• The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

  Author: Viktor Yanukovych

• Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

  Author: Isaac Wise

• In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

  Author: Isaac Wise

• The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

  Author: Leon Trotsky

• If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

  Author: Valentina Tereshkova

• Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

  Author: Valentina Tereshkova

• There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

  Author: Alexander Solzehnitsyn

• The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

  Author: Yakov Smirnoff

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  Author: Yakov Smirnoff

• Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• As for myself, I was never against Russia.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

  Author: Natan Sharansky

• I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

  Author: Pete Seeger

• If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front.

  Author: Hjalmar Schacht

• Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

  Author: Mikhail Saakashvili

• If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops.

  Author: Gerd Rundstedt

• My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

  Author: Arthur Rock

• In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake.

  Author: Eric Roberts

• My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

  Author: Herbert Read

• The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.

  Author: Prem Rawat

• My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

  Author: Johnny Ramone

• Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

  Author: Vladimir Putin

• Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

  Author: Vladimir Putin

• Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

  Author: Vladimir Putin

• Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

  Author: Vladimir Putin

• All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

  Author: Ernest Poole

• At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

  Author: Andrei Platonov

• As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

  Author: Martin Perl

• About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

  Author: Martin Perl

• Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

  Author: Carly Patterson

• In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

  Author: Alan Parsons

• Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.

  Author: James Nasmyth

• Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

  Author: Frederica Montseny

• I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

  Author: James Monroe

• There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

  Author: Joni Mitchell

• We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show.

  Author: Martin Milner

• Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.

  Author: Kelly Miller

• The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.

  Author: Kelly Miller

• The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

  Author: Kelly Miller

• Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

  Author: James Michener

• Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

  Author: Aslan Maskhadov

• It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.

  Author: Aslan Maskhadov

• We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be.

  Author: Aslan Maskhadov

• My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

  Author: Herbie Mann

• Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

  Author: Richard Lugar

• I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

  Author: Richard Lugar

• If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

  Author: James Lovelock

• Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

  Author: Curtis Lemay

• You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

  Author: Aleksandr Lebed

• In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

  Author: Pierre Laval

• Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

  Author: James Larkin

• We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.

  Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

• Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

  Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

• When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

  Author: Anna Kournikova

• Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

  Author: Helmut Kohl

• And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.

  Author: William Kirby

• Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

  Author: Tracy Kidder

• A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

  Author: Mikhail Khodorkovsky

• Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world.

  Author: Aly Khan

• Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

  Author: Garry Kasparov

• In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

  Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  Author: Ingvar Kamprad

• People took part in the referendum because they were tired of the war. They are afraid of talking about it out loud, but they have shown exactly where they stand: Yes, we want peace, and we want to be a part of Russia.

  Author: Akhmad Kadyrov

• Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period.

  Author: Donald Judd

• Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.

  Author: Igor Ivanov

• We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?

  Author: Laura Ingraham

• I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

  Author: Harry Houdini

• This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.

  Author: Benjamin Harrison

• Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.

  Author: W. Harriman

• Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

  Author: W. Harriman

• Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

  Author: W. Harriman

• A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.

  Author: Peter Hain

• Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

  Author: David Gurion

• Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.

  Author: Val Guest

• The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.

  Author: Bo Gritz

• In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization.

  Author: Edward Grey

• I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously.

  Author: Edward Grey

• I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.

  Author: Edward Grey

• The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

  Author: Adolf Galland

• Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

  Author: Adolf Galland

• At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

  Author: Klaus Fuchs

• Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

  Author: Klaus Fuchs

• At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.

  Author: Klaus Fuchs

• If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

  Author: Robert Frost

• Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

  Author: Milton Friedman

• Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.

  Author: Vito Fossella

• It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

  Author: James Forrestal

• Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

  Author: James Forrestal

• At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

  Author: John Flynn

• We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.

  Author: Joschka Fischer

• We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

  Author: Diane Feinstein

• In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

  Author: Esther Dyson

• My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

  Author: Eliza Dushku

• Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

  Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

• I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

  Author: Helen Dunmore

• Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on November 21 into a new cold war with Russia.

  Author: Stephen Cohen

• There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them.

  Author: Stephen Cohen

• Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

  Author: Winston Churchill

• You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

  Author: Anatoly Chubais

• I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

  Author: Anatoly Chubais

• The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

  Author: Anatoly Chubais

• Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.

  Author: Anatoly Chubais

• Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

  Author: Anatoly Chubais

• I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.

  Author: Warren Christopher

• It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

  Author: Warren Christopher

• We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

  Author: Warren Christopher

• This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.

  Author: Warren Christopher

• We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.

  Author: Warren Christopher

• Most of the food imported to Russia came from China.

  Author: Alex Chiu

• I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

  Author: Leroy Chiao

• The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

  Author: Emanuel Celler

• Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.

  Author: Martin Buren

• This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.

  Author: Bernhard Bulow

• The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

  Author: Otto Bismarck

• I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

  Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

• Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

  Author: Emily Balch

• My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

  Author: Bob Balaban

• It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

  Author: John Amery

• In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

  Author: Christiane Amanpour

• The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

  Author: Marc Almond

• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  Author: Marc Almond

• Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

  Author: Marc Almond

• I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

  Author: Woody Allen

• Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

  Author: Peter Agre

• With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

  Author: F. Abraham

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