Russia Quotes

America does, in the future, need to have a conversation with and try to move forward with Russia.

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.

In a crisis, we will destroy exactly the weapons. Russia will never again fight on its own territory .

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

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

One does not go to Moscow to get fat.

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

When Donald Trump focuses on a fight with the press or investigating leaks but doesn't seem committed to standing up to what Russia is doing at home and around the world, that is of profound concern.

Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I don't think World War III is going to happen in Syria.

Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

There's going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration's relationship to Russia.

Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.

After Russia (winning bronze at Rostelecom Cup), I'm one of the top Canadian ladies. Tomorrow, I just have to do a good long program.

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.

Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia.

Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the process of liberating itself from the same thing.

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

Russia should recognize the freedom of countries, such as Ukraine, to choose their alliances.

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

I don't feel any connection to Russia.

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.

Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.

Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors.

Not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin.

On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].

In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.

It would be naive of me to suggest that with Russia committed militarily, as it is, to supporting what in many cases are barbarous tactics by the Assad regime to crush the opposition.