I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason…

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful. I remember…

— Paul Laffoley

The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by…

— Tom Clancy

“The Russian spy agency had been ordered to make a bold move, hack the American elections, and engage in political warfare to elect Donald…

— Malcolm Nance

KGB was inseparable part of the Soviet Union and the whole structure of the Soviet society. We believe that the achievements of the Soviet…

— Vladimir Semichastny

Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into…

— Mathew Staver

I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.

— George Blake

... to say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

We don't have an appreciable American left any more in the United States. What I saw of the SDS in the '60s was very…

— Murray Bookchin

Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.

— George Blake

The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish…

— Vladimir Bukovsky

“There are scores of people who have never recovered, or been recovered, from an FSB interrogation. They’re a hard organization to describe because nothing…

— Tanya Thompson

There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were…

— Vladimir Semichastny

Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus…

— Stellan Skarsgard

Now it's of peculiar interest to an Arab country that there is a company and a certain set of bankers who also finance the…

— L. Ron Hubbard