Russia Quotes · Page 19

Nigerian footballers who have played in Russia improved their ability here.

— Jay-Jay Okocha

It is different in Russia. Here there is a television channel devoted to opera and dance.

— Sergei Polunin

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

— Vladimir Putin

In the end [after the 1905 revolution], Russia gained nothing more than a breathing spell.

— Richard Pipes

A few months ago, when you were asked whats the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia.

— Barack Obama

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

— Jim Mattis

There aren't a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary.

— Masha Gessen

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

— Matt Stone

Russia has a choice to make. No legitimate interest is served when oil and gas become tools of intimidation or blackmail, either…

— Dick Cheney

What Trump is not smart enough to even grasp is that the kind of popularity that Putin has can only be achieved…

— Masha Gessen

“Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower…

— Vera Nazarian

Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to…

— Hillary Clinton

Russia, China, Japan, Mexico, all countries will respect America far more when I'm leading it, far more than they do under past…

— Donald Trump

“Tsar Alexander I was prone to tears and he did weep over Borodino, but not at Borodino, as Tolstoy would have it.…

— Emma Richler

There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

People knew Trump had strange relationships with the Russians even before he was elected. Consequently, there is every reason to investigate whether…

— Richard Painter

“It began two years earlier when Karetnikov seized the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in broad daylight and dared the West to make…

— Matt Fulton

After the unlawful decision to recognize Kosovo, everyone expected Russia to respond by recognizing the independence and sovereignty of South Ossetia and…

— Vladimir Putin

Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a…

— George Mikes

Everybody used to talk about Chechnya as a place, in the Russian imperial and Soviet periods, that was essentially governed by extended…

— Fiona Hill

[ Rajiv Gandhi] was very reflective and rueful and regretful about the fact that his children's education...He wanted them to get educated…

— Bob Hawke

Hours before the Georgian invasion, Russia had been working to secure a United Nations Security Council statement calling for a renunciation of…

— Sergei Lavrov

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of…

— Vladimir Putin

At this point, I don't care much where I live. I don't feel as attached to Russia's native woods as I was…

— Vladimir Voinovich

Georgia and Ukraine are not just states in Russia's neighborhood; they are on its doorstep.

— John Mearsheimer

It would be easier to be tough on Russian than make a deal. I don't know if we'll make a deal.

— Donald Trump

In Russia, Vladimir Putin is viewed as a progressive Democrat.

— Ed Schultz

You know what I gave to Russia? You know what I gave? Nothing.

— Donald Trump

Inflation in Russia is primarily related to internal factors.

— Elvira Nabiullina

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

— John Kennedy

Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead.

— Malcolm Nance

Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.

— Anonymous

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

— Ambrose Bierce

Russia is certainly no longer a free country. We are moving in the direction of Zimbabwe.

— Andrey Illarionov

I don't like [Bashir] Assad at all. But Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS.

— Donald Trump

Everyone in Russia must awaken the citizen within himself.

— Vladimir Sorokin

The Russians have turned out to be the largest divided nation in the world nowadays. Is that not a problem?

— Vladimir Putin

Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.

— Boris Yeltsin

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

— Kurt Vonnegut

For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.

— Ivan Krastev