Russia Quotes

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops.

We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

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.

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

Most of the food imported to Russia came from China.

The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

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

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.