Quotes About Russians

I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews, two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still, if there wasn't greatness in me, maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others, even in the most irritating others.

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.

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

Why was the meeting between the Americans and the Russians so tensed?Because nobody knows what Vladimir Put In Barbara's Bush! From 'Walk On By II

There are at the present time two great nations in the world…. I allude to the Russians and the Americans…. Their starting-point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.

We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.

The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!

The truth is there was no collusion with the Russians and the Trump campaign.

We as Americans should all be concerned with the smearing of the Trump administration and unfounded allegations of collusion with the Russians.

We learn to laugh from the cultures that suffered most - from the Russians, Poles, and Irish - not from Sweden or France (the French go for Jerry Lewis - enough said).

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

There had been a wonderful atmosphere of liberation and camaraderie. The Russians hated it.

She shrugged. 'Russians are so unpredictable.

Fortunately, even Russians could not spoil vodka, and there was plenty of that.

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources.

Who are the Communists?" "Russians who want to take away everything you have and work you like a slave.

The lives of the great majority of Russians are uncommonly personal, which makes them excellent friends and poor citizens.

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.

The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people.

The outspoken president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, went as far as to state publicly [...] that "any talk about the protection of Russians living in Kazakhstan reminds one of the times of Hitler, who also started off with the question of protecting Sudeten Germans.

I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job," Trump told the Russians. "I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off.