Harvey Fierstein Quotes
With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr. Putin's attacks and the violence they foster. The Olympic Committee must demand the retraction of these laws under threat of boycott.
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Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out to get him', 'it's fake news', and all the rest.
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
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If [Western] relations with Russia are to be friendly, they must be open and sincere, otherwise there can be no friendship at all. That means one should be able to speak openly about everything at meetings and conferences. It shouldn't be that we can't discuss the killing of journalists in Russia, or the suppression of human rights, or all the warning signs surfacing in Russia because of oil and gas or other economic reasons. It's a big problem, but it's the same in Western relations with Arab states.
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I do believe that both countries, China and Russia, that both of them are responsible countries.
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My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.
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We are looking with interest at that proposal. It is a proposal in which enrichment would be done outside, in Russia, but at the moment no agreement has been reached between Russia and Iran.
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Russia has its heart divided between its Slav soul and its disgust for (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic's behavior.
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The biggest nationalist in Russia: that's me.
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Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.
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[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.
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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
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There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.
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Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.
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I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.
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We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.
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Putin wants nothing less than to return Russia to the center of global politics by challenging the primacy that the United States has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.
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Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.
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Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
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Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.
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With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr. Putin's attacks and the violence they foster. The Olympic Committee must demand the retraction of these laws under threat of boycott.
