Russia Quotes

I've been going to Russia since 1979. I've been going quite frequently, and I've always had a wonderful rapport with the Russian audiences and with the Russian people.

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

The recognition of Russia on November 16, 1933, started forces which were to have considerable influence in the attempt to collectivize the United States.

I never met Putin. This is not my best friend. But if the United States got along with Russia, wouldn't be so bad.

Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China, South Korea, and Russia.

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.

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

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.

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

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it

Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights.

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake.

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

Speaking seriously, Russia does not want to aggravate relations with anyone. We don't want any tensions. We want a good, friendly partnership with everyone.

The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

I own nothing in Russia. I have no loans in Russia. I don't have any deals in Russia.

If we could get Russia to help us get rid of ISIS, if we could actually be friendly with Russia, wouldn't that be a good thing? Is that so bad?

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.

Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

It is 60 years since the restoration of diplomatic relations, but relations between Japan and Russia have much deeper roots. In all, our diplomatic ties date back 150 years, more than 150 years now.

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.

My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so thats my background.