America Quote by Margarita Simonyan

America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones, so they…

— Burt Rutan

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

— Antony Blinken

George W. Bush tried working with the Russians after 9/11; Obama had the reset. Both presidents achieved less than they wanted, but they both…

— Daniel Fried

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has…

— Gary Shteyngart

Hitler wanted to destroy Russia- everyone needs to remember how that ended

— Vladimir Putin

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

“To understand Russia today, you must understand the trauma of the nineties. Everything we had, everything we had been told, was swept away. We…

— Daniel Silva

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

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to…

— Kary Mullis

For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we…

— Norman Mailer

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

“In those days, this was years for the sputnik thing, it was customary to downgrade the Russians' science. People who know something about those…

— E.L. Doctorow