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“I would like to inform you with great satisfaction of a new step forward on establishing partnership between Russia and Japan”

Steps Satisfaction Russia Japan Partnership Steps Forward

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.”

Track Russia Reform

Author:Dmitry Medvedev

“There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn't travel with them so it's hard, but I played hundreds of players from Eastern Europe and Russia who had no facilities at all.”

Hard Desire Player Europe British Coaches Russia Eastern Facility Eastern Europe

Author:Tim Henman

“NASA appreciates the efforts of Congress to resolve restrictions placed on our partnership with Russia. Congress' action helps to ensure the continuous presence of U.S. astronauts on the International Space Station.”

Helping Action Space Effort Appreciate International Congress Russia Stations Resolve Partnership Restriction Astronaut Nasa International Space Station

Author:Michael D. Griffin

“China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.”

Should Important States Effort Four Serious Members Disease Bird Organization China Russia Target Combat Cooperation Asian Flu Prevention Infectious Diseases Bird Flu

Author:Wen Jiabao

“Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.”

Space Russia Gas Soviet Expansion Diplomacy Exes Superpower

Author:Lilia Shevtsova

“In Russia there is great interethnic hatred, class hatred - I mean hatred for wealthy people - that is stirred up by official propaganda. That is why there can be no 'velvet' solution, as there was, for example, in Georgia or Ukraine.”

People Mean Class Example Solutions Hatred Russia Propaganda Officials Wealthy Ukraine Georgia Velvet

Author:Boris Nemtsov

“Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights.”

Important Play Roles Rights Achieve Russia Occupation Aggression Palestinian

Author:Khaled Mashal

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

Russia Fighter France Units Norway

Author:Adolf Galland

“Now how about this, ladies and gentlemen? The Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has announced she is stepping down. She will no longer be the Governor of Alaska. First thing, she woke up and went out on her porch and waved goodbye to Russia.”

Firsts Russia Gentleman Goodbye Governors Alaska Palin Porch Ladies And Gentlemen

Author:David Letterman

“There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.”

Funny Taxes Humorous Russia Income Income Tax

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“If Russia is prepared to run the risk of cutting off supplies to its neighbors if they have a disagreement, how reliable are they as a supplier? You have to ask the question.”

Ifs Running Asks Cutting Risk Prepared Neighbor Russia Disagreement Supplies Suppliers Cutting Off

Author:William Ramsay

“The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.”

Ifs America Views Conversation Mouths Point Of View Russia Dry Soviet Orthodoxy Soviet Russia

Author:David Hare

“It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong! It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in Germany, it’s wrong in Russia, it’s wrong in China! It was wrong in two thousand B.C., and it’s wrong in nineteen fifty-four A.D.! It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong!”

Has Beens America Hate China Russia Germany

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“All countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done.”

Country Done Russia

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that you will pull out of here and leave Europe, then Russia will have her way. Private enterprise and individual rights will be lost just as much as under a Nazi government. Frightful!”

Way Mean War Government Lasts Individual Lost Rights One Thing Europe Russia Enterprise Nazi Individual Rights Private Enterprise

Author:Hjalmar Schacht

“Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.”

Numbers Half Europe Russia Fourth One Half

Author:Isaac Mayer Wise

“Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality and despair, have not prompted modern intellectuals to question or revise their dogma. They still think that it is daring, idealistic and unconventional to denounce the rich. They still believe that money is the root of all evil-except government money, which is the solution to all problems.”

“That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.”

Should Would Be Industry Holy Russia Triumph Contradiction Empires Marxism Roman Empire Marxist

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.”

Way Might Culture Water Cities Russia Accuracy Containing Great Cities Cholera Typhoid

Book:The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill

Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill

“I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.”

Way Remember Memories Russia Queens Great Memories

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you can have ten shots of vodka and be perfectly okay. If I had ten beers, I would be liquidated.”

People Ifs Kind Would Be Cities Ten Majors Shots Okay Russia Beer Introducing Vodka

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when I didn't drink vodka, either in Russia or here. I don't think there's ever a wrong time to start drinking it. My ancestors drank it, and if I ever have any children, they'll be drinking it.”

Ifs Thinking Children I Can Remember Drink Drinking Russia Ancestor Household Drank Vodka Wrong Time

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.”

Country Age Dark One Thing Huge Russia Good Times Currency Dark Ages Vodka

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.”

Real Problem Sun Russia Real Problems Tomatoes

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.”

Mean Country Parent Amount Russia Best Things

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government.”

Moments Shows Government Felt Gay Ultimate Russia Spokes Rebel

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.”

Should Important Matter Character Hands Government Care Chance Opinion Depends Important Things Take Care Russia Philanthropy Treasury Leftovers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.”

Would Be Masters Europe Slave Russia Asia

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.”

Source: Bolshevism: practice and theory

“it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.”

Ifs May States United United States Development Russia Rivals

Book:Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22

Source: Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22

“I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.”

Matter Reading Realizing Doubt Changed Revolution Essentials Russia Fallen Soviet Regimes Gogol

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“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.”

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

“And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear?”

Ifs Thinking Men Said Whole Wealth Married Russia Boots Spares Lit Cigar Supposing Apparel Czars

Book:Two poems

Source: Two poems

“Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.”

Facts Suffering Wealth Poverty Type Argument Russia Spheres Frightening

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion - pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come.”

“The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia.”

Needs Years Done Past Ready Europe West Burden Russia Ideology Totalitarianism Escaping Integrating

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“Eden ha[s] put his country in a position where she sustained the greatest diplomatic reverse since Bismarck in similar circumstances had called Palmerston's bluff in the matter of Schleswig-Holstein...Further damage was done when Russia proved by her action in Spain, that she was not a good European as Mr. Eden had assured the world was the case.”

World Country Matter Done Action Cases Position Circumstances Russia Damage Reverse Spain Assured Eden Diplomatic Bluffs Bismarck

Author:Anthony Eden

“All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture.”

Eye Culture Grows Revolution Mass Horse Terror Spread Russia Socialism Ideology Germany Nationalism Fascism Pale Currency Apocalypse Starvation Epidemics Flourishing Emigration Bolshevism

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.”

Believe Hard Able Rooms Records Broken Phones Lawyer Russia Stolen Files Pistols Hard To Believe Armed Guards

Author:Jimmy Hoffa

“Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia - each one he could have conquered individually - these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.”

Ifs War Bigs America Fighting Lost Strong Forget Needed England Critical Russia Combination Damn Demon Willpower Strong Will Goering

Author:Hermann Goring

“I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany.”

Knows Nations Laughing Wonderful Kings Claims Russia Germany Englishmen Emperor Goering

Author:Hermann Goring

“It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.”

Made Important States Problem Political Fighting Social Economic Ready Army Russia Mess Combat Take Time Chechnya

Author:Aslan Maskhadov

“Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.”

Impossible Fool Russia Reform Nothing Is Impossible

Book:The Plays of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Plays of Oscar Wilde

“The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.”

Way Secret Modern Morality Anxiety Ideals Roots Currents Terror Noble Russia Communism Consistent Soviet Dread Disguise Altruism Literal Embodiment Irrationality Soviet Russia

Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

“My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me.”

Years Has Beens States Study Duty Various Russia France Germany Continents Statesmen Continental Netherlands

Book:SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

“Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.”

Source: AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1

“Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival. Certainly Howard Dean will be of no use steering her to the exit. It’s like Micronesia telling Russia to denuke.”

Helping Use Embrace Clinton Russia Village Rivals Exit Dean Pennsylvania Steering Suffocating

Author:Maureen Dowd

“The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people.”

People States Character Individual Mass Capitalism Structure Russia Capitalist Helpless Typical Altered Elimination Replacements

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.”

Littles Enough Wish Difficult Europe Russia Bells Turkeys Diving

Book:The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress

Source: The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress

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