Russia Quotes - Page 2

• There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humorous, Income

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.195, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Christian, Hate, Media

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• In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Funny, Two, Kgb

  "Laugh Off: The Comedy Showdown Between Real Life And The Pros". Book by Bob Fenster, 2005.

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• This is sort of the Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids, what we are doing to Russia right now, and I don't think this is a good idea.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Ideas, Cuban Missile Crisis

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you, now on top of you with this scourge marks, and you, who used to love me, who was sympathized, internalized, normalized everything, you are not allowed to turn away from me....this is what I am going to look like until the day I die. I can't get any peace from you ever unless you find away to make peace with this. Make peace with me. Or let me go for good.

  Paullina Simons

  Mother, Men, Here I Am

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• I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

  Viktor Yanukovych

  People, Firsts, States

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• Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.

  Newt Gingrich

  Diverse Society, Common Sense, Suggestions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

  Isadora Duncan

  Art, Food, America

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• Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

  Richard Lugar

  Fate, People, Democracy

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

  Martin Lewis

  Poverty, Jew, Left

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

  Robert Frost

  Country, America, Doe

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• Around 2008 and again in 2013 NATO officially offered the Ukraine the opportunity to join NATO. That's something no Russian government is ever going to accept. It's right at the geopolitical heartland of Russia.

  Noam Chomsky

  Opportunity, Government, Ukraine

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone and Saul Isaacson, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

  Pete Seeger

  Church, Politics, Christianity

  "The Old Left". Interview, www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Enemy, Doe, Needs

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• I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

  Winston Churchill

  Keys, Action, Mystery

  Radio broadcast, 1 Oct. 1939

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• Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Country, Men

  Leon Trotsky (1932). “The History of the Russian Revolution ...”

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• Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Rhythm Of Life, Air, Events

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (2016). “Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir”, p.6, HarperCollins

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• I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

  Prince Philip

  Dukes, Edinburgh, Half

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• The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish to be one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.

  George F. Kennan

  Jealous, Eye, Enemy

  George F. Kennan (2014). “The Kennan Diaries”, p.214, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power, so that using the power of the State and the power of the market simultaneously they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Hate, Men, Political

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• Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'

  John F. Kerry

  Alaska, Rocky Iv, Said

  "Kerry's 5 scathing Romney attacks" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Particularly from a German perspective, from a European perspective, I can only say again, Russia is our neighbor.

  Angela Merkel

  Perspective, Neighbor, I Can

  Source: time.com

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• In Russia, we had tough times. Only one puck, I always wanted the puck, so I learn how to keep it and make space and get puck when other guy has it.

  Pavel Datsyuk

  Space, Tough Times, Guy

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

  George F. Kennan

  Clever, Deceit, Determined

  "George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy". Book by David Allan Mayers, p. 30, 1988.

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• Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy. As a citizen, this makes me sit up and take notice. This is a concept of self-imposed isolation, a defense strategy that sees Russia surrounded by enemies.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Army, Two, Self

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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