Russia Quotes · Page 32

Sanctions against such country as Russia are unlikely to be effective.

— Vladimir Putin

Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

— Oleg Deripaska

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

— Simon Reuben

It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems.

— Margarita Simonyan

Getting rid of the Magnitsky Act is one of the top, if not the top, priorities of the Putin regime.

— Bill Browder

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

— Warren Christopher

NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.

— Michael T. Flynn

Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

— Marvin Kalb

The late 1990s were really a moment of still tremendous hope and optimism about the relationship between Russia and the United States.

— Antony Blinken

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up…

— Jeffrey Sachs

Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working…

— Lord Robertson

As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go?…

— Sarah Palin

Despite Russia's move to raise interest rates this week, the value of the ruble has continued to crash. Russia's economy is so…

— Jimmy Fallon

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

— Barbara Tuchman

It shouldn't just be Russia we're concerned about, because many countries that are not our friends have been hacking into American accounts…

— Steve Scalise

We can expect that the Ukrainians will continue to move forward and attempt to take back all of the territory within their…

— Lloyd Austin

In Russia itself the proletariat conquered in spite of the fact that there was no Soviet State in existence at the time…

— Leon Trotsky

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented…

— Martin Jacques

My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled. If they really wanted to capture me, they would've allowed me to…

— Edward Snowden

The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“Given how carefully choreographed Mr Putin’s public appearances are, the question itself touched a nerve in Kazakhstan. The country’s single greatest uncertainty…

— Anonymous

The fact that the union of different nationalities and denominations resulted from the liberation, this is particularly symbolic and important for our…

— Vladimir Putin

This, for instance, is what Egon Bahr said on June 26, 1990: "If we do not now undertake clear steps to prevent…

— Vladimir Putin

Contrary to the conventional wisdom in the West, Moscow did not invade Ukraine to conquer it and make it part of a…

— John Mearsheimer

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

— Jeffrey Sachs

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

— William J. Clinton

President Putin and President Trump-they both insist on their priority as national interest.

— Dmitry Peskov

The idea is that Putin-Trump would be a win-win for the Kremlin, as they have mutual interests and alliances.

— Fiona Hill

NATO is built on security, but it's also built on values.

— Condoleezza Rice

Putin has the ability to advance his interests in many different ways. Sometimes tactical diplomacy can help.

— Fiona Hill

The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.

— Paul Cellucci

We will continue to be a big contributor to NATO and our interests will be more secure.

— Liam Fox

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

— Tom Stoppard

Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water.

— Bob Hope

Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

— Buzz Aldrin

Russia is the biggest European nation. We are Europeans, we are not Asians.

— Ksenia Sobchak

“The oversight mechanism in the US may have been broken, but in Russia it didn’t exist.”

— Luke Harding

Cyprus has a reputation as a laundromat for the Russians who are trying to avoid sanctions.

— Mike Quigley

Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

— Carly Patterson

“not Rom. They’re Russian. Slavs, I believe.” “But she does fortune-telling.”

— Neil Gaiman