Russia Quotes - page 5

After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of. (Daniel Silva)
Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords. View quote
David Remnick
I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and existing world. View quote
David Remnick
Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices. View quote
Christopher A. Pissarides
Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred currency is dollars, though euros are also acceptable. View quote
Luke Harding
Russia continues to side with... rogue states and terrorist organizations, following Vladimir Putin's pattern of gratuitous and unpunished affronts to U.S. interests. View quote
Mike Pompeo
I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia. View quote
Alexander Lebedev
Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland. View quote
W. Averell Harriman
Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke. View quote
W. Averell Harriman
Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward. View quote
Valentina Tereshkova
We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO. (Aleksander Kwasniewski)
Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO. View quote
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation. View quote
Anna Lindh
My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so thats my background. View quote
Annet Mahendru
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. View quote
Aslan Maskhadov
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only. View quote
Agnes Smedley
My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business. View quote
Bob Balaban
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. View quote
Christiane Amanpour
I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. View quote
Colin Quinn
The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas. View quote
Daniel Yergin
The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear. (Emanuel Celler)
We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake. View quote
Eric Roberts
In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded. View quote
Esther Dyson
With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia. View quote
F. Murray Abraham
Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia. View quote
Federica Montseny