Connection Quote by Masha Gessen

The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man,…

— Masha Gessen

Putin, I believe, was actually born to be a KGB agent. And I say born because I think that his father was also an…

— Masha Gessen

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is…

— Anna Politkovskaya

I don't think I've ever met Putin. I mean if he's in the same room or something. But I don't think so.

— Donald Trump

Nicholas I has been called 'Genghis Khan with a telegraph.' Stalin was 'Genghis Khan with a telephone.' But Mr. Putin is not Genghis Khan…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“One possible motive in the murder was an article Litvinenko wrote claiming Putin was a pedophile. The article said: After graduating from the Andropov…

— Cliff Kincaid

Putin did not head the KGB, never has. Putin was a mid-level nobody there. Putin was one of those guys in the KGB who…

— Rush Limbaugh

I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has…

— Keri Russell

Telephone contacts, of course, cannot give you the perfect picture of each other's personality. But at least, during those contacts, and before the election,…

— Dmitry Peskov

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that…

— Aldrich Ames

There is no such thing as a former KGB man.

— Vladimir Putin

[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to…

— Ross Perot