Cold Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the…

— Gary Shteyngart

“During the Cold War, widespread alcoholism was always seen in the West as evidence that life under Communism was so dismal that Russians needed…

— Naomi Klein

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

— Richard Owen

You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when I didn't…

— Gary Shteyngart

Everybody is jumping up and down back in Russia. Probably lots of vodka, too.

— Alexander Ovechkin

“In 1985, then-General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, cut back on nationwide vodka production and passed a law…

— Martin Lindstrom

Vodka is kind of a hobby.

— Betty White

“In the former Soviet republics, there are three staples of life: vodka, chocolate, and corruption. I know someone who once survived in Uzbekistan for…

— Eric Weiner

My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks were angels,…

— Vladimir Sorokin

“Each person has his own manner of waking in the morning after a drunken orgy, and as nothing is unknown to a Soviet citizen,…

— Valentin Kataev

The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.

— Fuzzy Zoeller

“Vodka was a liquid cultural yardstick, an eighty-proof vehicle of escape from the socialist daily grind.”

— Anonymous