Captains Quote by Ryszard Kapuscinski

My father's a diplomat. He speaks Russian.

— Lulu Wang

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

When I first went to Moscow, I had a chance to meet with some important people over there.

— Antonio Inoki

[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

Most people in Uganda have something good to say about Amin - 'He was funny; he gave us pride to be African.'

— Kevin Macdonald

We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to…

— Satish Kumar

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

— Kevin J. Anderson

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few…

— Mathias Rust

“The food was what you might expect to find on Air Uganda tourist class:”

— Anthony Bourdain

I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft…

— Kevin A. Ford

I certainly don' think I could've played the character [Idi Amin] the same way without being in Uganda. I loved working in Uganda.

— Forest Whitaker

Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski