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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Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.
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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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I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.
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The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.
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Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
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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.
