Russians Quotes

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.

As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

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

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.

Where were they when the Russians went down?

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies.

The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.