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.

Viktor Yanukovych

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.

It is vital for Russia to normalize relations with the rest of the world. You shouldn't isolate your economy

Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it

Karl Marx

Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.

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.

Marvin Kalb

Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

Martin Lewis

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

Mikhail Gorbachev

In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself.

Mikhail Gorbachev

It sometimes seems to me that some of our Western partners do not want Russia to fully recover. They would like Russia to be in a subdued state, and they want Russian resources to be used for the benefit of the U.S. economy.

Mikhail Gorbachev

It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The forests of Russia and Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

Prem Rawat

The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.

Joseph Brodsky

What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.

Paul Robeson

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

Leroy Chiao

I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

Leon Panetta

Clearly, Russia has lied to the world about what's going on in Ukraine. They have clearly violated the cease-fire agreements.

Margaret Thatcher

Russia is bent on world domination.

Margaret Thatcher

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

Margaret Thatcher

Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

Pete Seeger

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.

Prince Philip

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

Peter Ustinov

I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.

Peter Kenyon

here are problems with the Turkish products inside Russia and the tourism going down. People are worried about that. But the really big economic weapons, oil and especially natural gas, those have not been brought into play yet - mostly in the form of threat so far. So basically the view from here is that, yeah, things are getting bad, but they could still get much, much worse.

Shimon Peres

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

Marc Chagall

Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me.

Tatyana Tolstaya

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

Tatyana Tolstaya

I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

Tatyana Tolstaya

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

Lincoln Steffens

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.