Russia Quotes · Page 21

Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government.

— John McCain

Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.

— Jeremy Corbyn

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

— Agnes Smedley

The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

— Benjamin E. Sasse

We intend to remake the Gentiles - what the Communists are doing in Russia.

— Menachem Begin

They [Russians] are the adversary, they - we're the adversary they love to hate.

— Daniel Fried

We must engage in a whole-of-government approach to combat Russian active measures.

— Richard Burr

Russia and Iran are not going to allow the Assad regime to fall.

— Rashid Khalidi

I don't like Assad at all, but Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS. And Iran is killing ISIS. And those…

— Donald Trump

Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so…

— Vladimir Putin

If we can have a good relationship with Russia and if Russia would help us get rid of ISIS, frankly, as far…

— Donald Trump

I want to go to Brazil, I want to fight top Brazilians in Brazil. I want to go to Russia, fight Khabib…

— Justin Gaethje

Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass…

— Vladimir Putin

Like Reagan, President Trump strives for good relations with all nations, including Russia. But no nation, including Russia, should doubt the president's…

— Robert C. O'Brien

It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as…

— Alisher Usmanov

The Olympic movement simply cannot allow the Russians to become estranged, because Russia is a vital part of the world sports community,…

— Dave Barry

People are tired of the humiliation that they don't want to be perceived as weak within the international community. And they are,…

— Clarissa Ward

“My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms…

— Sarah Miller

25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in…

— Vladimir Putin

“The Yeltsin years considerably lowered the bar [of public expectations] for the country’s next leader: Putin’s specific policies and actions arguably matter…

— Helena Goscilo

On my arrival in U.S.S.R. in 1934, I remember that I was struck by the enormous proportion of Jewish functionaries everywhere. In…

— Denis Fahey

“Умом Россию не понять, Аршином общим не измерить. У ней особенная стать, В Россию можно только верить! Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet, 1803–1873…

— Fyodor Tyutchev Anatoly Liberman

I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that…

— Hermann Goring

NATO expansion, E.U. expansion, and turning Ukraine and Georgia and other countries into liberal democracies were all about creating a giant zone…

— John Mearsheimer

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

— John Updike

With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it.

— Bernie Ecclestone

Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

— Matt Taibbi

I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president.

— Hillary Clinton

The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets.

— Mikhail Prokhorov

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

— Ravi Zacharias

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

— Daniel Fried

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

— Garry Kasparov

We have to isolate Putin's regime as a pariah state, and we have to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

— Ritchie Torres

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

— Sergei Lavrov

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

— Curtis LeMay

I served in the Navy in Europe and know firsthand the importance of our NATO partners.

— Mikie Sherrill

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

— Lyudmila Alexeyeva

I'm all for NATO. But I said they have to focus on terror, also.

— Donald Trump

Teams from Ukraine and Russia are getting better all the time.

— Willian

Outside of the Moscow elite and a very small urban elite, Russia is one great big blue-collar country.

— Fiona Hill