Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Hitchens

The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying to encircle them. In what sense does the independence of Kosovo, a land-locked province, former Yugoslavia, with no common border with Russia, threaten Russia with encirclement? This is insulting. In what sense does the independence of Georgia constitute an encirclement? What we are facing, and we may as well give it its right name, is what I called it earlier, a chauvinistic, theocratic in part, xenophobic Russian imperialism.

Freddie Mercury

They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.

Gary Shteyngart

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

Christiane Amanpour

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.

George F. Kennan

Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia of anything resembling the private enterprise system as we know it.

Federica Montseny

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

Ezra Levant

And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia's secret police and al-Qaeda's murderers.

Between us and our Russian partners, we're going to do the right thing.

Modest Mussorgsky

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

The Russians were the ogres then, you know. Mysterious.

Kim Clijsters

The Russians play a similar type of game,

Jawaharlal Nehru

The Russians have been so sweet to me,

The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!

Vladimir Putin

The Russian parliament has condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.

It's NATO's view that Russian troops should not deploy until all the arrangements have been completed.

Carly Fiorina

As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.

Carly Fiorina

When our embassy is attacked in Benghazi by terrorists and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Russia invades Ukraine and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Syria crosses the red line and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Iran launches tests of ballistic missiles and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When North Korea attacks Sony Pictures and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. In other words, Mrs. Clinton, you cannot lead from behind. We must respond when we are attacked or provoked.

H. G. Wells

It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution – that is to say, an effective ‘dictatorship of prosperity,’ for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers.

Russia depends on natural resources way too much. Russian economy is not diversified enough

It is vital for Russia to normalize relations with the rest of the world. You shouldn't isolate your economy

Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it

Karl Marx

Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.

H. G. Wells

...the Idumeans (Edomites) were...made Jews...and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia...The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.

Ian Frazier

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

Hillary Clinton

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

Herbert Read

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.

Herbert Hoover

The recognition of Russia on November 16, 1933, started forces which were to have considerable influence in the attempt to collectivize the United States.

Ingvar Kamprad

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

Stephen Kinzer

Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.

Pete Seeger

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.

Prince Philip

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

Emanuel Celler

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.