Empires Quote by Marvin Kalb Download Open image “Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.” — Marvin Kalb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empires Power Russia Ukraine
Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
You know that in the Eurasian space, Russia is the central state, the most powerful state. But to become an empire, a member of… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
People in Russia have a right to their choice if they want to live in an empire, but they need to accept that people… — Petro Poroshenko Copy Share Image
Russia is a country that has supported, propped up the worst of anti-democratic regimes in the Middle East, that has practiced - mistreated its… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Putin never wanted all of Ukraine. He wanted for historical purposes to take Crimea. He did. Then he wanted a part of Ukraine that… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
If anything good is going to emerge out of this, it's going to be the result of an acceptable modus vivendi between Ukraine and… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin is a Russian czar. He's kind of a mix of Peter the Great and Stalin. He's got both in his veins. And… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been better explained.… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Well, we have got to understand, for example, Russia is an orthodox Christian nation. So is Ukraine. That happened in 988 in Crimea, a… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how government bureaucracy… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war. — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is Russia began… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
When President Obama in 2011 used military power against the Qaddafi regime in Libya, he did not even notify Congress. A few in Congress… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
But there are realities governing what they can do. And Ukraine cannot live with the false image that somehow or another the West will… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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