Russia Quotes - Page 35

• Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China - also were the original five countries to have nuclear weapons.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Historical, United States

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• The five original nuclear weapon states I mentioned - U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia - under the NPT have committed to the achievement of the elimination of their nuclear arsenals through good faith negotiations of nuclear disarmament - that's Article Six of the treaty.

  John Burroughs

  Nuclear Disarmament, Achievement, Weapons

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• The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible fact about what it was like in Russia during Stalin's time when people actually believed that to get to the point where the Proletariat would triumph, anything that was necessary to be done should be done; the means didn't count.

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Mean, People

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

  Nat Hentoff

  War, Thinking, United States

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research. I didn't know the towns my mother and father came from in Russia. I didn't know the name of the clothing store I went to work for when I was 11 years old. I didn't know a lot of things. So I called for my FBI files, not expecting to have that stuff there, but I wanted to know what they had on me.But they did have the towns my mother and father lived in in Russia. They had the grocery store I worked in when I was 11 years old.

  Nat Hentoff

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice.

  Noam Chomsky

  Cowardice, States, Soviet

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.

  John F. Kerry

  America, Effort, Lines

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I would love to have a stable, productive relationship with Russia.

  David Remnick

  Stable, Productive

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

  David Remnick

  Election, Interfere

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and existing world.

  David Remnick

  Real, Ukraine, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, United States, Care

  Source: www.iww.org

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• I would consider the principal threats to start with Russia, and it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate nations around their periphery, regional nations nearby them, whether it be with weapons of mass destruction or, I would call it, unusual, unorthodox means of intimidating them, that sort of thing.

  James Mattis

  Mean, Mass Destruction, Unorthodox

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Congressman [Mike] Pompeo said he believes the intelligence agencies' claims that Russia hacked the US election.

  James Mattis

  Believe, Agency, Election

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I saw the relation with Russia as necessary to the U.S., for the interests of the U.S. We worked very closely with them on the Sochi Olympics. We were working closely with them on the Iranian nuclear deal.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Olympics, Saws, Nuclear

  "Smoke Signals from The Swamp: Meet General Michael Flynn" by Dook Snyder, theberkshireedge.com. October 30, 2017.

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• We have a problem with radical Islamism and I actually think that we could work together with Russia against this enemy. They have a worse problem than America does.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Thinking, America, Enemy

  "Smoke Signals from The Swamp: Meet General Michael Flynn" by Dook Snyder, theberkshireedge.com. October 30, 2017.

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• Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.

  Michael T. Flynn

  War, Iran, Proxy

  "Smoke Signals from The Swamp: Meet General Michael Flynn" by Dook Snyder, theberkshireedge.com. October 30, 2017.

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• I think all three of those men [James Mattis, Mike Pompeo and Rex Tillerson] that you just mentioned, depending on what deal was struck with Russia, depending on what terms the deal would have and what incremental steps we would have to take and measurements that we would have to take with potentially Russia in a deal, some of those positions could change, and some of President-elect Donald Trump's positions could change depending on what deal could be struck.

  John Lewis

  Men, Thinking, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Putin is a leader of his country. I say it's better to get along with Russia than not. And if Russia helps us in the fight against ISIS, which is a major fight, and Islamic terrorism all over the world major fight, that's a good thing.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Islamic, Fighting

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• What you have in President Trump is someone who is willing to, and is, in fact, engaging the world, including Russia, and saying, where can we find common interests that will advance the security of the American people, the peace and prosperity of the world? And he is determined to come at that in a new and renewed way.

  Mike Pence

  People, President, Facts

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What Donald Trump is determined to do, as someone who has spent a lifetime looking for deals, is to see if we can have a new relationship with Russia and other countries that advances the interests of America first and the peace and security of the world.

  Mike Pence

  Country, New Relationship, America

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity.

  Mike Pence

  Ukraine, Land, Support

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There are instances in which American interests align with Russia and there are those where they don't. And so the question is, can we help steer Russia to being something that doesn't conflict with our interests and something that - and a country that aligns with our interests?

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Helping, Conflict

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the games, then why are we using nation's flags? Why don't we use one Olympic flag to encompass all the Olympians, as opposed to being separatists in terms of China versus Russia or Russia versus the United States? Why don't we just say man versus man?

  John Carlos

  Men, Games, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have a range of scenarios. One of them is a chaos, that what could happen is Congress does step up a little bit and the administration is paralyzed. And we go through all kinds of constitutional crises, impeachment or the 25th Amendment removal process. Another frightening scenario is Donald Trump is steering his way to a series of international confrontations at the same time as he's appeasing Russia.

  David Frum

  Littles, Way, Administration

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• [Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia] are here because they could offer very essential and important help, because the situation that we are facing now is not only about a few terrorists from within Syria; it's like international war against Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, Iran, Important

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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