Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksander Kwasniewski

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

Aleksander Kwasniewski

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957! Solzhenitsyn cited Cheka Order No. 10, issued on January 8, 1921: 'To intensify the repression of the bourgeoisie.'

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?

Albert Einstein

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.

Soundarya

I'd like to be known for my character.

Anton Yelchin

I don't feel any connection to Russia.

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.

Conan O'Brien

Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long to recover from the finale of 'The Bachelor.'

Don Young

Russia's increased Arctic presence. The Arctic has vast natural resources and security value, and Russia is drastically increasing its footprint in the region.

e. e. cummings

O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)

Anatoly Chubais

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

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.

Anatoly Chubais

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

Andrew Weil

In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.

Angela Merkel

First, we need good, stable relations with Russia. Second, we must make every effort to save energy and focus on using various sources to meet our energy needs. We must not allow ourselves to become dependent.

Angela Merkel

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

Donald Trump

When people call you brilliant it's always good, especially when the person heads up Russia.

Donald Rumsfeld

If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.

Condoleezza Rice

Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.

Condoleezza Rice

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

Condoleezza Rice

Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

Dave Brubeck

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

Curtis LeMay

Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

David Letterman

The Russian economy is tanking. It's gotten so bad that today Vladimir Putin had to pawn his stolen Super Bowl ring. And Putin will finance his next invasion on Kickstarter.

Mikhail Bakunin

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Anatoli Boukreev

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

Anatoli Boukreev

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

John Sparkman

We've got to do something. You can't play Russian roulette on this.

Bo Gritz

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

Mikhail Bakunin

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.