Top 484 Russia Quotes

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.

The true reason of Ms. Rice’s attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men’s attention.

People in Russia learned English off the Beatles. People in Japan learned English off the Stone Roses. Noel Gallagher says music can’t change the world, but the Roses made him want to start a group, so it changed his world.

I mean, I’m a political figure in Russia for more than 10 years… This is how people in Russia know me.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.

All our compatriots know that the loss of Mongolia would mean the demise of our country. We would rather resist Russia and die heroically than succumb to Russia and perish shamefully.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

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.

Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

I’ve had a lot of luck. If I didn’t I’d be washing bottles in Russia.

I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music… and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.

All fraudulent elections should be condemned, including those in Turkey and Russia. And we need to be doubly mindful not to indulge amateur socialists in this country, because even though a Bernie Sanders presidency is a joke, the consequences of diet communism are deadly serious.

You know that in the Eurasian space, Russia is the central state, the most powerful state. But to become an empire, a member of some empire, a province in this empire – you know, we’re probably not ready for that yet, neither in Kazakhstan nor in Belarus.

Putin is trying to create the best possible atmosphere for Russia.

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

I don’t have a lot of hope for Russia when Putin goes, because I think that the kind of damage that has been done to that country hasn’t been understood. We’ve never seen a country that has been this battered.

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

It shouldn’t just be Russia we’re concerned about, because many countries that are not our friends have been hacking into American accounts across the board.

Assertions that Russia has undermined efforts to strengthen partnerships on the European continent do not correspond to the facts.

Russia would not support anything which would be actually imposed on Syrians.

The thing I miss about Russia the most is what is called ‘black bread.’ It’s rye bread, and everyone eats it. I slice mine up and put sunflower oil and salt on it… the best thing ever. It was like a little treat for me when I was a kid.

Trump has long been a fan of Vladimir Putin but seems to be unaware that Russia’s goal in Syria is simply the maintenance of its longtime ally President Bashar al-Assad in power. Indeed, Moscow has hitherto shown little appetite to focus on ISIS.

The people are really afraid of what’s going on in Russia; they are suffering with fear, sitting at home, doors locked, because they are afraid of their government.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

I have never received a single ‘off-the-books cash payment’ as falsely ‘reported’ by ‘The New York Times,’ nor have I never done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russia.

Few issues better illustrate the limits of the Obama administration’s ‘reset’ with Russia than the crisis in Syria.

You know, people have actually changed the way they think about nuclear weapons now, post-Cold War, post-9/11. The threat of nuclear weapons is not so much Russia attacking the United States, China. It’s not a state-to-state – it’s obviously terrorism; it’s proliferation.

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can’t they fly in space?

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

In one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story… I don’t if anybody knows what it is but it was about… in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.

Honestly, Russia should want it, to give our territory, our land back to us.

The E.U.’s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation with Russia.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

Russia alone has the capacity to obliterate the United States.

If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia – for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops.

One consequence of Russia’s klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs.

Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.

The Internet can give young people a fantastic platform to become financially independent and have global businesses without leaving Russia.

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of ’42, in Russia.

I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it’s worth it. My parents have a home in a little village of 12 houses. It’s not on any map, so unless you know it’s there, you won’t find it. Nothing works there; no Internet, no cell phone, and the land line only works sometimes. It’s great!

Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.

The New Year is probably the biggest celebration in Russia.

The Ukrainians don’t have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven’t helped them militarily, either.

The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Trump’s alliance with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, in defiance of America’s own intelligence community, the Department of Justice, and the bipartisan report of the Senate Intelligence Committee, forces us to face that the fundamental principles of our nation are under attack.

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.