It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets,… — Marat Safin Copy Share Image
I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It seems to be in fashion among Russian politicians to blame Berezovsky for everything. Soon they'll be holding him responsible for global… — Alexander Lebedev Copy Share Image
There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union at this time was being run by the Communists, a group of men fierce in their dedication to wearing… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Can the wider West establish a global 'cyber NATO?' It would be difficult, but so, too, was the founding of NATO itself,… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time… — Saul David Copy Share Image
I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“And Trump appears to have fallen hard for Putin’s macho “bare-chested autocrat” act. He doesn’t just like Putin— he seems to want… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
I will not speak to Vladimir Putin personally until we've rebuilt the 6th Fleet a little bit right under his nose; rebuilt… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
“Being sick is itself a kind of ressentiment. — Against this the invalid has only one great means of cure — I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am a legal immigrant whose parents went from Russia to China to Chile to finally reach the United States and thereby… — Mike Medavoy Copy Share Image
The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly. I understand that an effort… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia] are here because they could offer very essential and important help, because the situation that we are facing… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. And your humble servant hasn't been… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Bribery quickly became an integral part of the Russian way of doing business, and the expense of buying a government official was… — David Satter Copy Share Image
We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption. — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
You know, Russia brings it on. People don't want to be Russia hawk. People would like - that's what the president always… — Kurt Volker Copy Share Image
As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics. — George Packer Copy Share Image
We don't stop Russia or any other country from trying to influence public debate in the United States on any issue. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Nobody here is questioning the victory. I want to know President-elect [Donald] Trump doesn't believe the conclusions of 17 intelligence agencies. — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
We in no way are naive to think that just because Russia and the United States agree to reduce their arsenals, that… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
If Ukraine becomes a pro-American liberal democracy, and a member of NATO, and a member of the E.U., the Russians will consider… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is taking flak from the media, establishment republicans and all the democrats for merely stating the obvious and the truth:… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I would like to see someone with more traditional foreign policy experience and, obviously, his views and attitudes towards Russia will be… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
The Magnitsky law has proven to be a powerful tool. While asset freezes and travel bans against corrupt officials may sound incidental,… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
Nicholas I has been called 'Genghis Khan with a telegraph.' Stalin was 'Genghis Khan with a telephone.' But Mr. Putin is not… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such… — Junichiro Koizumi Copy Share Image
As colonial puppeteer and successful restorer of Russia as imperial superpower, Mr. Putin is Stalin's consummate heir. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
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