Russia Quotes · Page 18

Obama is under incredible pressure to supply arms to Ukraine.

— Fiona Hill

Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.

— Dmitry Medvedev

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Russians aren't good at haggling, they aren't passionate about business. But they are outstanding fighters.

— Sergey Karaganov

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

— Jonathan Lynn

We have put in the toughest, most crippling sanctions ever.

— Barack Obama

He [Vladimir Putin] will not be able to push Donald Trump around the world. Believe me.

— Rudy Giuliani

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Although China may be able to change the major power structure in the next ten years, it will be unable to shift…

— Wang Yizhou

If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter…

— Vanessa Mae

Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased…

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The Russians have succeeded in one thing: they have sold the world the idea that they represent socialism and the ideas of…

— Erich Fromm

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more…

— Joe Biden

Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not…

— Sergey Lavrov

The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] proposed advancing to a new level of economic engagement, putting forward eight lines of cooperation in the…

— Vladimir Putin

As the Cold War came to a close, Soviet leaders preferred that U.S. forces remain in Europe and NATO stay intact, an…

— John Mearsheimer

We know the Russians did everything they could to be involved in our campaign. We know that what they're doing around the…

— Joe Manchin

“Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely…

— Sarah Miller

NATO is in our national security interests. And, yes, we pay a lot for it, but, when we had Afghanistan, NATO troops…

— James Franklin Jeffrey

You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when…

— Gary Shteyngart

What do we do if we pass a law that says this has to be done, and then China says, oh, well,…

— Angus King

“But why wake up all that past? Why reopen the old wounds of those who were living in Moscow and in country…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Russia is a very different place than what we in the West are familiar with. We cannot apply our own values and…

— Courtney Act

“move by Ukraine to join NATO, which the Kremlin says is a major threat to Russian security.”

— Anonymous

Nobody ever looked at me in Krasnodar. I'm not in the taste of the men there at all.

— Anna Netrebko

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

— Garry Kasparov

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

— James Thurber

If we are Russian citizens, treat us as Russian citizens. We want equality and justice.

— Ramzan Kadyrov

Zelensky's mastery of communication clearly wounds Russia deeply.

— Cathy Newman

According to international law, Crimea is Ukraine's. Period.

— Ksenia Sobchak

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

— Winston Churchill

“He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.”

— Victor Serge

A united, confident America should easily be able to counter Putin's whataboutism.

— Miranda Devine

If there is a showdown, two enormous nations, Russia and China, standing side-by-side, will defeat fascism!

— Andre Vltchek

Putin is an uneducated, unintelligent, uncultured man who has no plan.

— Masha Gessen

The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

— Julian Assange

“She was, after all, a mattress owner and understood the subtleties of life.”

— Ilya Ilf

Don't forget, America is a very powerful nuclear country and so is Russia. There's no up-side.

— Donald Trump