Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reinhold Niebuhr

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

Sarah Palin

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

Ronald Reagan

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

Paul Ryan

Take a moment to imagine a world led by China or Russia. So we must lead.

Natalia Vodianova

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

Tatyana Tolstaya

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

John McCain

In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia.

John F. Kerry

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

Garry Kasparov

When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt against (then Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, and eight years after the people had torn down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the hated founder of the KGB, in Moscow - it was admittedly a shock. Nevertheless, I decided to give Putin a chance. He seemed dynamic and capable of learning. But I had to bury my hopes after just a few months. He proved to be an autocrat - and, because the West let him do as he pleased, he became a dictator.

Simon Bolivar

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth

Hal Kvisle

So stay tuned I guess. It's going to be a very dynamic and interesting period from now to 2012. And we hope by the 2012 meeting that we'll be able to tell you that the Mackenzie pipeline is in fact on-stream and Alaska is getting close.

Joe Miller

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.

Ruth Ginsburg

EPA can exercise its supervisory power to block a facility's construction, ... As EPA found, the Alaska department's own records showed there was scant, if any, evidentiary basis for choosing less stringent emission-reduction technology.

Darby Stanchfield

What I miss most about living in Alaska is the fishing.

Aldo Leopold

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Vengeance is a dish best served cold. (Thanatos) We’re in Alaska, dickhead. Here everything is cold. (Zarek)

Niels Bohr

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Fareed Zakaria

Alaska itself is an unusual state.

Romy Schneider

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

Truman Capote

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Richard M. Nixon

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

William Carey

The less said about me the better.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?

Margaret Atwood

You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.

Margaret Atwood

Where do the words go when we have said them?

Rachel Caine

I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me?