America Quote by Gary Shteyngart

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

— Ivan Krastev

It was always presumptuous to expect Russia, an ancient nation-state and proud empire of distinct culture with a tradition of autocracy, to become an…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia…

— Martin Jacques

There's not a whole lot of similarity between the two societies, Russian and American. There are similarities behind psychological forces. One thing we can…

— Masha Gessen

The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia…

— Anatoly Chubais

America had Russia wrapped around it little pinky through the whole '90s. We did everything you told us. And we were eager to do…

— Margarita Simonyan

America is stronger than Russia. Our economy is 16 times larger than the Russian economy.

— Mike Pence

No doubt, the United States and the American people are a gear country and a great people. Nobody disputes this, but talking about exceptionalism…

— Vladimir Putin

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.

— Erich Fromm

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

— Angela Merkel

“Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same.…

— Tom Robbins

I wanted to show something that Americans don't usually think about when they think about Russia, which is the extreme stratification of Soviet society.

— Masha Gessen