Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.

David Longmuir

The American day traders have popped up in Russia for the first time.

Soundarya

I'd like to be known for my character.

Mikhail Bakunin

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Ayn Rand

The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.

Edward Snowden

One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.

Boris Yeltsin

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.

Dimitri Simes

We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship -- we don't want this relationship to go out of control.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

Kunda Dixit

Our parties are better at fighting for democracy than making it work.

Mahathir Mohamad

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive. Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war even.

Jeff Chester

Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.

Bernie Sanders

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.

Emma Bonino

landmark in a very difficult fragile development towards democracy.

Bill Vaughan

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

Bertrand Russell

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

Charles Clark

It is our duty to promote the view that democracy and not violence is the means of making change,

Helen Thomas

I suppose that's democracy really. But everybody with a laptop thinks they're a journalist these days. That's a problem.

Carol Kurdell

Really to me it is the most sensible way to do this as painful as it is.

Bill Cosby

It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

Jacqueline Bisset

I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

Carl Crawford

That's the most painful triple I ever had to earn. It still hurts.

Greg Strobel

It has been a disappointing and painful way for Troy to end his career.

Kelsea Ballerini

I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.

Todd Bermont

If they talk fast, try not to talk painfully slow.

Hector Munro

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

Nancy Grace

No, I haven't really tried. I don't want to spend one more painful moment. I know (forgiving him is) what I should do. I just don't think I can let that go right now.