Russia Quotes - Page 10

• Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Brother, Fire, Airports

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• 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.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Fighting, Order, White

  Appeal to the military to not participate in the coup attempt, while standing on a tank during troop movements against the Russian White House, August 19, 1991.

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• 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.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Mistake, Errors, Development

  "Zerkalo", www.russialist.org. December 29, 2001.

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• 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.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Work, Europe, Stability

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• 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.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Independence, Remember, Soviet

  Interview on "Zerkalo", (RTR), December 29, 2001.

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• As for myself, I was never against Russia.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

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• When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia. Pray.

  Grigori Rasputin

  Children, Men, People

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

  Bo Gritz

  Facts

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

  Anatoly Chubais

  People, Microsoft, Bills

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• 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.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Thinking, United States, Way

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

  Anatoly Chubais

  Support, Way, Internet

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

  Anatoly Chubais

  Country, Able, Please

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• The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Hate, Kind, Cronies

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• 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.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Wind, Achievement, United States

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• 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.

  Kelly Miller

  Crush, Leader, East

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from some ultranationalists and toward those interested in liberty and reform. He pressed Clinton to replace his ambassador in Kiev and concentrate future U.S. economic aid on Ukraine, where it would matter most.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Ukraine, Liberty, Kiev

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.

  Georgy Zhukov

  Seems

  "Mandate for Change, 1953-1956: The White House Years" by Dwight David Eisenhower, (p. 518), 1963.

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• The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.

  Walther von Brauchitsch

  Tired, Army, Effort

  "Kaltenborn Edits the War News" Hans Kaltenborn, (p. 25), 1942.

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• In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay in the Sahel or powerful Great Zimbabwe in the West Africa tablelands, bigger than the cresting Ottoman Empire, bigger than the Triple Alliance (as the Aztec empire is more precisely known), bigger by far than any European state, the Inka dominion extended over a staggering thirty-two degrees of latitude—as if a single power held sway from St. Petersburg to Cairo.

  Charles C. Mann

  Powerful, Aztec, Two

  Charles C. Mann (2006). “1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”, p.74, Vintage

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• In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Blow, Years, Communist

  Roger Lowenstein (2000). “When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management”, Random House Incorporated

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• 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.

  John T. Flynn

  Running, Hands, Sea

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• In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Caviar, Century, Sauerkraut

  Mark Kurlansky (2003). “Salt: A World History”, p.272, Penguin

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

  Herbie Mann

  Mother, Father, Romania

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• 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.

  Peter Hain

  Country, Responsibility, United States

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• I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who comes from the border between Russia, Germany and Poland. I'd like to see what you can do with my face.'

  Veruschka von Lehndorff

  Black, Germany, Borders

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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