Russia Quotes

Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.

I don't believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.

I'm really happy that it's in Russia. I've had a lot of success here. I had my first world championships here when I was younger so I am happy to do the Olympics here. I am really enjoying myself.

Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.

I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.

They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

The people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

I have nothing to do with Russia.

I think if NATO haven't expanded, we would have a no-man's zone between the E.U. and NATO and Russia, and that would be very dangerous.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

[Rex] Tillerson is there to get these sanctions [against Russia] lifted. I believe it. Just watch him!

The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity.

When I fly to Chile to surf or go snowboarding in Russia or some other adventure, I try to include the family when I can and go see friends along the way.

It's more of a strength model to say that [Vladimir] Putin will do what it takes to defend his country. But that's why Putin is dangerous and Russia is a major cause of concern for us .

It is vital for Russia to normalize relations with the rest of the world. You shouldn't isolate your economy

Russia depends on natural resources way too much. Russian economy is not diversified enough

If you want Russia to be a real fully developed partner, then America should invest in Russia and activate Russia as a strong nation.

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets.

Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government.

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.

We see a more assertive Russia, which has implemented a very significant military buildup over several years, and a Russia which has used military force against neighbors, especially Ukraine.

We are seeking to avoid a new Cold War, avoid a new arms race, and, therefore, we continue to work for a more constructive relationship with Russia, including political dialogue with Russia.

Russia has got to be the team to beat, in my opinion. When they are playing together as a team, they are tough to beat.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

It seemed to me that I had come for the first time close to the soil of my native country, and could feel for the first time running in my veins Russia's vastness, her potency, her strength.

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk about democracy and yet are not democratic themselves.

The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system.

In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.

O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.