How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
There is the Jewish Agency, which gets a lot of money from the United States, from American Jews, whose sole job it… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
I don't think Americans realize the degree to which they are the main subject of Russian television news. Every night there's news… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The Russians have intensely disliked but tolerated substantial NATO expansion, including the accession of Poland and the Baltic countries. But when NATO… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
After all these recent events in Russia - "Crimea is ours!," Donbas, all that - I realized I could get back into… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
As far as Russia goes, they've been our partner for a long time now, since the early '90's. So you know, what's… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
Frankly, the conservatives need to be better conservatives. Real conservatives actually respect our Constitution and would stand up to an authoritarian. Real… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Each country has its own particular features, its own traditions that find their reflection today and will find it in future. There… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
What has happened to protesters in the past was that, basically, the government in 2012 put an end to a series of… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
You're safer not believing what you read in the New York Times. I don't care what it's about, but certainly that you're… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no… — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
These are the highlights in a lifetime of following sports. Hilarity. The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Generally, Putin thinks of himself as Christian. I don't think he is, but he pretends to think that he is. In terms… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
In the midst of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Putin invaded the Republic of Georgia. Let's call it for what it… — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
Putin imagined it would be different. So, like many Russian leaders before him, he imagined that Ukraine was basically Russia, but they… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
In 2012, Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency after a four-year, constitutionally imposed hiatus. It wasn't the smoothest of transitions. To his… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Putin portrayed himself as an avowed democrat. And yet even then, at the dawn of democracy in Russia, he warned that… — Steven Lee Myers Copy Share Image
When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is an American presidential nominee who was describing Russia in terms that they haven't heard almost ever. And so there… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
China and Russia play very different roles. They both are getting involved across the world in all different pockets. Their tentacles are… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Speaking about our largest oil company Rosneft, and I recalled in the beginning that almost 20 percent of it [19.7] belongs to… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The greatest thing I could do is shoot that ship that's 30 miles offshore right out of the water. Everyone in this… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
[On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
It is well known that Russia has many interesting and promising developments in the military-technical sphere. We are ready to deliver the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We want to work with the Russians. But we also have every right to expect the Russians to behave in a fashion… — John McCain Copy Share Image
They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I know some of you people, "Well, Rush, what do you mean Donald Trump won by 2.8? You can't throw out New… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
![“How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.” quote by Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/544/adam-hochschild-4138_chekhov_how-many-really-great-writers-are-there_1459719.jpg)
![“Speaking about our largest oil company Rosneft, and I recalled in the beginning that almost 20 percent of it [19.7] belongs to BP. Who's company is that? British Petroleum, isn't it? I suppose that is not bad. I have to tell that British Petroleum's capitalization is significantly related to the…” quote by Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fea/vladimir-putin-261_british_speaking-about-our-largest-oil-company-r_1652269.jpg)
![“If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far…” quote by Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a20/oliver-stone-1812_american-life_if-we-americans-are-a-strong-people-a-un_2148721.jpg)
![“The Yeltsin years considerably lowered the bar [of public expectations] for the country’s next leader: Putin’s specific policies and actions arguably matter far less than his reassuring symbolic function as “a real man” who can husband the nation’s resources and promise a return to greatness…” quote by Helena Goscilo](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4ab/helena-goscilo-70434_leadership_the-yeltsin-years-considerably-lowered-t_464034.jpg)
![“[On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do not mean by this that true greatness and stability are never met with; but their boldness, their imaginativeness knows no bounds. With them everything is colossal…” quote by Madame de Stael](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bc6/madame-de-stael-2069_application_on-russia-in-every-way-there-is-somethin_1230354.jpg)
