Top 20 Russian People Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Russian People Quotes from famous people such as Vladimir Putin, Lincoln Steffens, Masatoshi Koshiba, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Svetlana Alexievich, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early ’90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts.
Vladimir Putin
The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.
Lincoln Steffens
In the western world, you can go out, take a boat trip to the Caribbean and so forth, and buy good things with your own money. But the Russian people with rubles cannot do that.
Masatoshi Koshiba
The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
I don’t hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people… I love Ukraine very much.
Svetlana Alexievich
I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It’s the people who had their past and future taken from them – they don’t get paid – many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.
Aleksandr Lebed
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it’s not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts – a lot of comedy – and that’s sort of like home to me.
Taylor Schilling
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
Leon Trotsky
I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.
Vladimir Putin
Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.
Roger Altman
The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.
Vladimir Putin
I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future.
Hillary Clinton
A personality like Conor’s appeals to the Russian people a lot. He’s always ready to go, he knocks people out and he’s tough.
Artem Lobov
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
Richard Lugar
All Russian people know who I am. So I use this to the good because, you know, it’s really hard to shut my mouth off because… I’m too bright, and I’m too many years visible to everyone.
Ksenia Sobchak
The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.
Vladimir Putin
We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
Marc Almond
I started like many young Russian people in the beginning of perestroika when it seemed that everything was possible.
Roustam Tariko