Russia Quotes · Page 14

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

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

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French…

— Warren Christopher

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

You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he…

— Dmitry Peskov

Were Trump campaign officials the only ones engaging in questionable behavior regarding Russia? Hardly. The Clintons are in the same category.

— Katie Pavlich

Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter.…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have…

— Osip Mandelstam

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated.…

— Slobodan Milosevic

Mexico is the second most important destination of U.S. exports. What does this mean? The U.S. sells to our country almost the…

— Enrique Pena Nieto

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

“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