Russia Quotes · Page 27

Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.

— Masha Gessen

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

— Valentina Tereshkova

I'm so happy to be a part of Russian MMA history by headlining the first UFC event in Russia.

— Aleksei Oleinik

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

When people call you brilliant it's always good, especially when the person heads up Russia.

— Donald Trump

I think that Medvedev and Putin are in on it together. One is playing the good cop and the other the bad…

— Yekaterina Samutsevich

In a crisis, we will destroy exactly the weapons. Russia will never again fight on its own territory .

— Sergey Karaganov

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

— Joseph Conrad

In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain…

— Anton Chekhov

Napoleon once said that justice is the incarnation of God on Earth. I'm telling you: the reunification of Crimea and Russia is…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Alisher Usmanov

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

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

“Jabir listened but was not convinced.  “Iraq and Iran haven’t gotten along for many centuries. Why should we now?”

— Karl Braungart

The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United…

— Dave Barry

Russians are concerned by North Korea. I mean there's - this is getting kind of close to home for them. And so…

— Nikki Haley

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

— Courtney Act

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

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

We also have begun to assess with the Ukrainians the scope of their larger security assistance requirements. We have had teams out…

— Susan Rice

“Vladimir Putin rose to lead Russia to victory over the Wharton School of Economics’ plan to bleed Russia dry. As we shall…

— John Coleman

I don't think Vladimir Putin goes to the theater enough to even deign to think there was any criticism intended. We were…

— Gregory Doran

Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian…

— Andre Leon Talley

Trump has long been a fan of Vladimir Putin but seems to be unaware that Russia's goal in Syria is simply the…

— Peter Bergen

Governor Pence said, inarguably, Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama.

— Tim Kaine

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

— Ritchie Torres

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

— Garry Kasparov

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 am one of the most famous people in Russia, which is maybe not modest, but it's true.

— Ksenia Sobchak

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

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

If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm not sure, but [Russia] might be happy to see this guy [Dan Fried] exiting stage left.

— Rachel Maddow

Russia's number-one goal is to pull apart the E.U., to pull apart NATO.

— Chris Murphy

The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.

— James Clapper

In Russia, they say I'm a Pole, in Poland they call me Russian.

— Konstantin Rokossovsky