Russia Quotes
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Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.
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Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.
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I don't understand what the president's Donald Trump position is on Russia. But I can tell you what my position is on Russia: Russia is a great danger to a lot of its neighbors, and Vladimir Putin has as one of his core objectives fracturing NATO, which is one of the greatest military alliances in the history of the world.
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Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists. It destroys them.
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But I remember exactly where I was when I was sitting in front of the television when those ships from Russia were headed to Cuba.
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I may not stay in Russia all the time but I'm still based in Volgograd and I don't have plans to move abroad permanently, at least for now.
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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 think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors.
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They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.
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Russia will deliver energy supplies only to those it likes, only to those regimes who are friendly with Russia.
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The oppressed becomes the oppressor. Look at Russia, it’s heading back to Stalin.
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If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business.
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Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.
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Some participants are trying to put formulas unacceptable to Russia, including on Chechnya, into the declaration
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We in Russia have always considered Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. I still think so.
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Russia's partners should understand it's best not to mess with us.
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There is a view of Russian exceptionalism, that they are a unique civilisation, a view right since Ivan the Terrible that Russia is a special civilisation with a special culture. Putin is pushing that now.
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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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Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.
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In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.
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With respect to Russia, my principal approach to Russia has been constant since I first came into office. Russia is an important country. It is a military superpower. It has influence in the region and it has influence around the world.
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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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We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.
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My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.
