Russia Quotes · Page 13

I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.

— Vladimir Putin

I don't believe that Russia's a threat for Europe. I think that's a big scam.

— Marine Le Pen

I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

— David Remnick

Diminish us across the board. They [Russians] do not wish us well.

— Daniel Fried

There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason.

— Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.

— Adolf Hitler

Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia.

— Alan Greenspan

Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia.

— James G. Stavridis

Anybody who has ever traveled in other countries, some of which shall remain nameless, except for Russia and China, you know that…

— Hillary Clinton

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At…

— Adolf Galland

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few…

— Maria Sharapova

I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing…

— Barack Obama

Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious…

— Anna Netrebko

Putin, I believe, was actually born to be a KGB agent. And I say born because I think that his father was…

— Masha Gessen

The president-elect seems to want Russia as a friend. President Obama arguably has not wanted to say that Russia is that great…

— Steve Inskeep

End of the war would be when the Russian occupation troops leave Ukrainian territory and we close the uncontrolled part of the…

— Petro Poroshenko

The nationalists' coup in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev in February 2014 has hugely scared 2.5 million Russian people living on Crimea.…

— Vladimir Putin

Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone…

— Alexei Navalny

I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the…

— Masha Gessen

Russian President Vladimir Putin's traditionalist-nationalist rhetoric, which blames secularism, diversity and internationalism for the weakening of Western democracies, gives voice to the…

— Asha Rangappa

I think that Putin's strategy has been throwing a lot of money, fairly haphazardly, at a lot of projects aimed at disrupting…

— Masha Gessen

Every morning, when Alaskans wake up, one of the first things they do, is look outside to see if there are any…

— Tina Fey

“The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the time. It was impossible to…

— Boris Pasternak

It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or…

— John Grant

“In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.”

— Leo Tolstoy

I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.

— Richard M. Nixon

Russia has always been involved in propaganda and disinformation.

— Sebastian Gorka

The Russian government doesn't like me; Vladimir Putin doesn't like me.

— Bill Browder

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

— Mitch McConnell

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

— Mitt Romney

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

— Martin Lewis Perl

NATO is obsolete, because it's not taking care of terror.

— Donald Trump

[Michael Flynn has] seen at a dinner party famously sitting next to Vladimir Putin.

— John Heilemann

In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

— Anton Chekhov

Internal reform in Russia would require a better relationship with the West.

— Daniel Fried

Our job is to tell the world about Russia and to report world news from a Russian viewpoint.

— Margarita Simonyan

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

— Bernard Malamud

Both Russia and the United States have had their homelands attacked by violent extremists.

— Robert C. O'Brien

America does, in the future, need to have a conversation with and try to move forward with Russia.

— Philip M. Breedlove

Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify…

— Jill Stein