Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Trump

When people call you brilliant it's always good, especially when the person heads up Russia.

Adolf Hitler

If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.

Adolf Hitler

Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany.

Angus King

What do we do if we pass a law that says this has to be done, and then China says, oh, well, OK, we're going to pass that law too and we want access to every iPhone in China? Iran says the same thing, Russia says the same thing - you know, the bad guys go underground. They'll shift to some other encrypted platform.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957! Solzhenitsyn cited Cheka Order No. 10, issued on January 8, 1921: 'To intensify the repression of the bourgeoisie.'

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?

Albert Einstein

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.

Alexander Lebedev

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

Alexander Lebed

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

Adolf Galland

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

Donald Rumsfeld

If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.

Andrew Weil

In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.

Angela Merkel

First, we need good, stable relations with Russia. Second, we must make every effort to save energy and focus on using various sources to meet our energy needs. We must not allow ourselves to become dependent.

Angela Merkel

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

Dave Brubeck

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

Curtis LeMay

Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

Anatoly Chubais

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

Anatoly Chubais

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

Anatoly Chubais

Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.

Suzanne Massie

Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

Tina Fey

And I can see Russia from my house.

Victoria Wood

In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones.

Victor Pinchuk

I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.

Veruschka von Lehndorff

I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who comes from the border between Russia, Germany and Poland. I'd like to see what you can do with my face.'

Vagit Alekperov

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I'm big in Russia, but no one's quite sure why.

Tom Robbins

Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles.

Steve Wozniak

And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them.

Ravi Zacharias

Isn't it ironic that after 70 years Russia wants God back while we are trying to kick him out?