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Quotes About Russians

The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
~ W. Averell Harriman
I like Russia. I love Russians!
~ Bryan Fogel
More and more Russians started watching the UFC when Conor came along. The more they watched, the more they understood it.
~ Artem Lobov
I often come across Russians and they're all interested in football.
~ Jay-Jay Okocha
I'm against lifting any sanctions on the Russians.
~ Mitch McConnell
The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but Paris is still where good Americans want to go when they die - and Brits, Russians, and Chinese as well, these days.
~ Michael Korda
The Establishment on both the Left and the Right, who want to disenfranchise the millions of Republican voters who support Donald Trump, have blamed the staged riots near Trump rallies on Trump or on Bernie Sanders. That's like blaming the Russians for the Reichstag Fire.
~ Roger Stone
The Russians are a very sentimental people.
~ Mike Jackson
My brain said it would be very difficult for the Russians to control French officials that way, especially since Ukraine. My gut told my brain it was talking out of my ass. It was a very organic and slightly surreal conversation
~ David Archer
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
~ James Grover Thurber
You have not yet discovered what happens to Russians at sea.' 'The same thing, I suppose, that happens to Englishmen,' Chancellor said. 'Scots, I take it, are immune.' 'To sarcasm, yes,' Lymond said.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
We Russians, on the contrary, practise prodigality,' she said.
~ Agatha Christie
I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.
~ Alexei Mordashov
My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.'
~ Olivia Thirlby
During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.
~ Ben Shapiro
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
~ Alexander Haig
The painful post-communist transition has prompted bouts of nostalgia among older Russians for the relative ease and order of Soviet times, with little heed paid to the harsh reality that the bankrupt Soviet system itself helped bring about the mess that Putin now faces.
~ Ramsey Flynn
The Channel is an international waterway through which the Russians are quite free to pass - and over which we have no exclusive right.
~ Peter Hitchens
The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.
~ Harry Triguboff
When E.U. governments are able to agree on political and economic policies, they will remain a superpower to influence the Americans, the Russians, Indians and Chinese over the coming decades. Britain on its own would resume the decline which continued through most of the 20th century.
~ Kenneth Clarke
Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, a similar percentage of Russians would almost certainly support Putin's quest for a strong Russia. We would mistake this mood at our peril.
~ Alistair Horne
Iran's previous attempts at democracy were thwarted by foreigners—the British and Russians in 1905–1911; the United States in 1953—whose interests were served by suppressing all democratic aspirations in the region.
~ Reza Aslan
"Evil men have no songs." How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.
~ Rick Larsen