Russia Quotes - Page 28

• It was announced today that Iran has reached a deal with the U.S. to limit its nuclear program and send most of its uranium to Russia. Then Americans said, 'That's great! Wait, WHAT?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Iran, Waiting, Nuclear

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• In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Order

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• To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Evil, Mind

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• I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

  Vladimir Lenin

  World, Care, Revolution

  "Communists: The Battle over the Tomb". The Time, content.time.com. April 24, 1964.

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• Open the books ... and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States Treasury for the benefit of Russia. Find out what business has been transacted for the State Bank of Soviet Russia, by its correspondent, the Chase Bank of New York [owned by the Rockefellers].

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  New York, Book, Taken

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• I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

  Anton Chekhov

  Integrity, Believe, People

  Letter to I.I. Orlov, February 22, 1899.

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• Russia has banned all adoptions to Americans. So, if you were hoping to get a little white kid with fetal alcohol syndrome, you're going to have to wait until Lindsay Lohan reproduces.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, White, Adoption

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• I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Wall, Rain, Simplicity

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• If we have the kinds of confirmation that we need, we will once again work with the international community and the organization charged with monitoring compliance by the Syrian government, and we will reach out to patrons of Assad like Russia to put a stop to it.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Organization, Community

  Remarks by President Obama in Press Conference after GCC Summit, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2015.

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• Boris Nemtsov, left his mark on the history of Russia, in politics and public life. He worked on important positions in the difficult transition period for our country. He always openly and honestly stated his position, defended his point of view.

  Vladimir Putin

  Life, Country, Views

  "Boris Nemtsov: Opposition figure who took on Vladimir Putin" by Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. February 28, 2015.

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• We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

  John F. Kerry

  Change, War, Behavior

  "Calls grow to arm Ukraine, as European leaders scramble for last-ditch peace plan". www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2015.

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• This is my country. The Russian people are in bit of trouble. Russian court doesn't work. Russian education decline every year. I believe that Russia has a chance to be free. Has a chance. It's difficult, but we must do it.

  Boris Nemtsov

  Education, Country, Believe

  "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", edition.cnn.com. May 11, 2014.

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• Lord, save Russia and bring her peace.

  Nicholas II of Russia

  Peace, Lord

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• It's not dissimilar to what we see with the president of Russia, who uses a minority there, the lesbian, gay, bisexual community ... and he goes after them with great relish because he knows that it's going to resonate with a part of the population.

  Thomas Mulcair

  Gay, Bisexual, Community

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• We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have real competition.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Real, Political, Competition

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• Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.

  Vladimir Putin

  Environmental, Fifteen, Pollution

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• I think would send a very strong message to Putin and to Russia that NATO countries and the United States are going to respond by growing stronger economically and strategically.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

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• A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

  Vladimir Yakunin

  War, Cost, Use

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Germans, Frenchmen and Englishmen can say of themselves: "I am the state." I cannot say that. In Russia only the people in the Kremlin can say that. All other citizens are nothing more than human material with which they can do all kinds of things.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  People, Citizens, Kind

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What right does the West have to constantly criticize Russia? There are a few things about the West that I don't like either. But I am not constantly pointing my finger and criticizing things that are a country's internal affairs.

  Vladimir Yakunin

  Country, Doe, West

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The day General Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believed that Russia used cyber warfare against the joint chiefs. We need a new commander in chief that will stand up to our enemies.

  Ted Cruz

  Iran, Enemy, Warfare

  Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken by its past, and our past would be our future.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Mean, Past, Church

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Creating, Years, Enemy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The bureaucracy has grown such powerful roots in Russia, and corruption is so widespread, that people from opposition have no interest in changing anything.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Powerful, Roots, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Everyone in Russia must awaken the citizen within himself.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Citizens

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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