Russia Quotes

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

What's happening in Russia of course is you have a country watching out for its national interest.

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

Russia has banned all adoptions to Americans. So, if you were hoping to get a little white kid with fetal alcohol syndrome, you're going to have to wait until Lindsay Lohan reproduces.

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

The nationalist right have common views. They hate the EU, they hate NATO, they dislike trade, they admire Russia. Many of them are funded by Putin.

I think Russia has already turned the toughest pages in its history. We're only moving forward now, only get stronger.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

In Soviet Russia, party always finds you!

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter and can consolidate its positions

The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

In Russia all people enjoy the equal rights, including homosexuals.

You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.

I believe that we do not share as many values with Russia yet as we do with the United States. On the other hand, we have a strong interest in Russia developing in a reasonable direction.

We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them.

The Russian story's all an excuse for the Democrats losing. That's a total witch hunt, the whole Russia story. It's a hoax. It's a hoax. We had no collusion with Russia. We never dealt with Russia.

The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

Let's go to Russia. She [Hillary Clinton] went to the Kremlin on her very first visit and gave them that stupid symbolic reset button.

In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.

We're trying to find areas of cooperation with Russia in the area of counterterrorism and the campaign against ISIS.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

Somebody is always suspecting Russia of having some ambitions, there are always those who are trying to misinterpret us or keep something back.

Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason.

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

I really think in the Commonwealth of Europe you should have Russia. I listed a hundred countries that would be in it and it would then be a really European United Nations.

There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.

We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, there should be a dialogue on these issues.

Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.

Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather.

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be...

My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I'm doing which is somewhere I've wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

I didn't do anything for Russia. I've done nothing for Russia. Hillary Clinton gave them 20% of our uranium.

She [Hillary Clinton] wants to start an air war over Syria with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.