I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I…

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

I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB…

— Brian Crozier

Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.

— Boris Pasternak

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.

— Robert Gottlieb

“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

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

... 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