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Quotes About Russia

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.
~ Alexei Navalny
It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.
~ Vladimir Putin
We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia's communist workers.
~ Alexandra Kollontai
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
~ Arthur Rock
If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with.
~ Martin Gore
But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.
~ Virginia Woolf
But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Lord, save Russia and bring her peace.
~ Nicholas II of Russia
it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.
~ Bertrand Russell
out of great Russia came three dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die for: Bread, Peace, Land.
~ Carl Sandburg
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
~ Woody Allen
Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.
~ Bidzina Ivanishvili
Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.
~ Osip Mandelstam
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
~ Clement Attlee
I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.
~ Pete Seeger
In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.
~ Garry Kasparov
Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
~ Al Franken
If we can have a good relationship with Russia and if Russia would help us get rid of ISIS, frankly, as far as I'm concerned, that would be a positive thing, not a negative thing.
~ Donald Trump
If we could get along with Russia, that's a positive thing. We have a very talented man, Rex Tillerson, who is going to be meeting with them shortly.
~ Donald Trump
The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
~ Bob Schaffer
The partisans would continue picking off Nazis; the Nazis would continue massacring noncombatants; and eventually the Fascists would learn that they could not win the war even if they killed thirty civilians for every one of their dead soldiers. The arithmetic was brutal, but brutal arithmetic always worked in Russia's favor.
~ David Benioff
population. By the end of 1915 the Allies found the situation so menacing that the Russians, supported by the 8,000-strong Russian-officered Persian Cossacks, occupied the north of the country, taking over the capital city of Teheran and, with it, the weak, recently crowned young Shah. The most pro-German of the politicians fled, initially to the holy city of Qum, and later to Kermanshah, near the Ottoman frontier, where a German puppet government was established, backed by Ottoman troops.
~ David Fromkin