City Quote by Alexander Vindman

My father's father fled a pogrom in Russia in the early 20th century and was welcomed to the United States. So was my stepmother,…

— Antony Blinken

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking…

— Daniel Nathans

My mother emigrated from Russia as a young child. She couldn't speak English and had no education. Her father died at age 32, leaving…

— Dianne Feinstein

In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, Virginia. Far from home, my parents were…

— Azita Ghanizada

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

— Martin Lewis Perl

My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious…

— Jan Schakowsky

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my father. My mother…

— Victor Mitchell

My family fled socialist regimes not once but twice.

— George Santos

I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

— Arthur Rock

I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left…

— Simon Kuznets