Russia Quotes

• And I can see Russia from my house.

  Tina Fey

  House, Saturday Night Live, I Can

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 15, 2015.

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

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, Political, Secret

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

  Winston Churchill

  Mystery, Riddle, Enigma

  Radio broadcast, 1 Oct. 1939

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

  Woody Allen

  Funny, War, Book

  "Sorry, But Speed Reading Won't Help You Read More" by Mark Seidenberg, www.wired.com. January 24, 2017.

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• 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.

  Julius Streicher

  Travel, World, Execution

  "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 50), 1997.

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Dog, People, Lions

  Broadcast on BBC Russian Service, in Listener 15 Feb. 1979

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• Russia's partners should understand it's best not to mess with us.

  Vladimir Putin

  Should, Partners, Mess

  "Don't Mess with Nuclear Russia, Putin Says". uk.reuters.com. August 29, 2014.

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• Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Ukraine, Democracy, Empires

  "Russia's lost swagger" by William Harrison, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2008.

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• Putin has big plans for Russia...Hats off to the Russians. I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Hats, Putin

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• If [Western] relations with Russia are to be friendly, they must be open and sincere, otherwise there can be no friendship at all. That means one should be able to speak openly about everything at meetings and conferences. It shouldn't be that we can't discuss the killing of journalists in Russia, or the suppression of human rights, or all the warning signs surfacing in Russia because of oil and gas or other economic reasons. It's a big problem, but it's the same in Western relations with Arab states.

  Vaclav Havel

  Mean, Rights, Oil

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, Taken

  Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

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• With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real destiny of Russia is to become closer to the West.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Powerful, Real, Moving

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Isn't it ironic that after 70 years Russia wants God back while we are trying to kick him out?

  Ravi Zacharias

  Years, Ironic, Trying

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• If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell's boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beautiful, Men, Love And Hate

  "Karl Lagerfeld: Greeks Are Disgusting, Russian Men Are Ugly". www.villagevoice.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

  John McCain

  Country, Gas Stations, Republican

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• Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

  Oscar Wilde

  Reform, Farce, Ends

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.570, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or he can deliberately accept his servitude. All three forms flourish in the modern world. Men are born and forced into slavery in Russia and her satellites states. Men in the free world invite slavery when they ask the government to provide complete security, when they surrender their freedom to the "Welfare State."

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Men, Way

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Humor, Presidential

  Remarks during radio microphone test, 11 Aug. 1984

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• 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?

  Laura Ingraham

  Queens, Korea, Europe

  "Laura Ingraham Tweaks 'Today' On Obama Obsession". "Today" with Matt Lauer, www.newsbusters.org. April 8, 2009.

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• There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.

  Vladimir Putin

  Citizens, Common, Motherland

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• When we talk about the Far East we usually mean the Far East itself, including Primorye Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Kamchatka, and Chukotka, as well as Eastern Siberia. All this area contains tremendous resources, including oil and gas, 90 percent of Russian tin, 30 percent of Russian gold, 35 percent of forest, 70 percent of Russia's fish is harvested in the local waters.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Oil, Water

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.

  Bertrand Russell

  Gratitude, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Bolshevism: practice and theory”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

  Vladimir Putin

  Military, Should Have, Illusion

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• My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

  Maria Sharapova

  Children, Parent, Normal

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

  Karl Marx

  Tactics, May, Method

  Speech delivered in London, January 22, 1867.

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