Russia Quotes · Page 16

You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.

— Masha Gessen

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

— Alexander Lebed

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

— Henry Ford

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

— Madeleine Albright

Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

— Isaac Mayer Wise

I'm not a bad boy now I'm living in Russia. London was great but there were too many distractions.

— Sergei Polunin

Russia is a European country, and so we'd better, if we want a powerful Europe, negotiate with Russia.

— Marine Le Pen

While most people in the world probably haven't heard my name, Vladimir Putin thinks about my name on a very regular basis.…

— Bill Browder

There is a view of Russian exceptionalism, that they are a unique civilisation, a view right since Ivan the Terrible that Russia…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Congressman [Mike] Pompeo said he believes the intelligence agencies' claims that Russia hacked the US election.

— James Mattis

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither…

— James W. Loewen

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't…

— Raymond Pettibon

Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a…

— Vladimir Putin

Ukrainian nuclear weapons are the only reliable deterrent to Russian aggression. If the U.S. aim is to enhance stability in Europe, the…

— John Mearsheimer

I think that what is true is that the Russians intended to meddle, and they meddled. And it could be another country…

— Barack Obama

The documents I have declassified reveal that there are folks in the Biden - or, the Obama-Biden administration, senior national security folks…

— John Ratcliffe

Russia had to take the necessary measures in order to prevent the situation in Crimea unfolding the way it is now unfolding…

— Vladimir Putin

I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you,…

— Paullina Simons

There is nothing wrong when the Trump administration says it wants to find areas of common ground to work with Russia -…

— Daniel Fried

The relationship of Trump to Russia has been reported on, and the activity to change the Republican platform happened openly, and Trump's…

— Anne Applebaum

“Sveta had much less to say, but she sat with Lev and held his hand, and when I asked her what had…

— Orlando Figes

I'm tired of Italian gangsters. Not that I don't watch 'The Godfather' every morning when I get up and 'Goodfellas' when I…

— Richard Belzer

Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has.

— John Podesta

Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.

— Vladimir Putin

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

— Joseph Stalin

Russia has not taken part and is not going to take part in any actions aimed at removing legitimate government.

— Vladimir Putin

If our country got along with Russia, that would be a great thing.

— Donald Trump

Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.

— Federica Mogherini

Putin looks at her and he laughs. OK? He laughs. Putin. Putin looks at Hillary Clinton and he smiles.

— Donald Trump

The world respects President Trump. And I believe that Vladimir Putin does as well.

— Katie Britt

“Lesson taught by History: do not fight Russians in their own territory.”

— Victor Bello Accioly

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

— Hillary Clinton

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

— Eduard Shevardnadze

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

— Garry Kasparov

Those who criticize Putin are not human: they are my personal enemies.

— Ramzan Kadyrov

Russia has demonstrated it is not committed to genuine partnership with the United States.

— Will Hurd

“In Russia, drunks are our kindest people. Our kindest people are also the most drunk.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Russians stole from the Democratic National Committee with hacking.

— E. J. Dionne