Kremlin Quotes

• The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Purpose, Roulette

  "Russia Is Not a Democracy". Interview with Uwe Klussmann and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. March 15, 2007.

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• Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Secrecy

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• Germans, Frenchmen and Englishmen can say of themselves: "I am the state." I cannot say that. In Russia only the people in the Kremlin can say that. All other citizens are nothing more than human material with which they can do all kinds of things.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Russia, People, Citizens

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk up to Reagan's desk and say, 'I don't like the way you are running the country.' Gorbachev replied, You can do the same thing in the Soviet Union. You can go into the Kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country.'

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Country, War

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• Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

  Edward Abbey

  Lasts, Staff, Pentagon

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• As reporters in State College, there was a joke. We used to call Penn State, the Kremlin.

  Rodney Erickson

  College, Penn State, Used

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• We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

  Garry Kasparov

  Rehabilitation, Propaganda, Used

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• There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

  Garry Kasparov

  Way, Action, Protest

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• Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fall, Puppets, Today

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• Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Evil, Purpose, Communism

  Margaret Thatcher (1987). “In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986”

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• In Russia whenever you encounter a minor official, he lets you know that he is above you and that you depend on him. It is reflected in the superpower mentality that nourishes the Kremlin. An empire always demands sacrifices from its people.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Sacrifice, Russia, People

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• Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, People, Political

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• 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!

  Alan Parsons

  Russia, Special, Shows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for even they cannot change this law of nature and they know it. It is up to us, not only by example but by positive acts, to make the most of this driving force within mankind.

  Allen Dulles

  Freedom, Men, Law

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• When the South has trouble with its Negroes - when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" - it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.

  James A. Baldwin

  Blame, Trouble, Refuse

  "Collected Essays". Book by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. 1998.

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• The Kremlin said Yeltsin was committed to the deal, however. President Yeltsin states clearly and unequivocally that he is an initiator of the unification of the two fraternal states and their peoples, a consistent and firm supporter of it, ... It is a geopolitical necessity and an economic reality.

  Sergey Yastrzhembsky

  Reality, Two, President

  "Last-minute glitches mar Russia-Belarus merger". www.cnn.com. April 1, 1997.

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• Parties can't be artificially assembled at the Kremlin.

  Vladislav Surkov

  Party

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Wisdom, Leader, Tape

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• If he isn't named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin. 
  (on Tommy Smith)

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Player, Men

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• We are living in a new ice age, and we need to apply the recipes of the Cold War to the Kremlin. That means isolation instead of offers of negotiation. And Ukraine should have been supplied with weapons long ago.

  Garry Kasparov

  War, Mean, Ukraine

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• [A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first."

  Ronald Reagan

  Science, Waiting, Firsts

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• Disneyworld... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

  Alan Coren

  Historical, Magic, Vision

  "Tissues for Men". Book by Alan Coren, 1980.

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• Dissidents are not imprisoned as in the domains of the Kremlin, in the old days. They do not have their brains blown out by elite forces armed and trained by the reigning superpower, as happens in Washington's domains - with no particular concern at home - an important fact, one of many that help us learn about ourselves, if we choose.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Brain, Important

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Russia

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.188, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Following Instructions, People

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