Russian Quotes

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize.

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own.

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world.

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

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

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.