In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment…

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

— Alexander Lebedev

Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia…

— David E. Hoffman

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm…

— George F. Kennan

Kid gets caught with marijuana, that kid has a police record. A Wall Street executive destroys the economy, $5 billion settlement with the government,…

— Bernie Sanders

“They can't strike against smugglers! We're not the government. We are a criminal private-enterprise operation!”

— Bruce Sterling

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

— Ray Stannard Baker

Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government...Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if prosecuted and…

— Lawrence M. Friedman

Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals of internationalism,…

— Andre Vltchek

“Since 1947, official American policy towards the Soviet Union had been one of containment short of war; but the same geostrategic principles did not…

— Malcolm H. Murfett

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

— Golda Meir

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever…

— Winston Churchill

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand…

— Lincoln Steffens

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

— J. Stalin

The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed…

— Andrei Grechko