Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.
Helmut Kohl

Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
Valentina Tereshkova

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.
James Larkin

Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world.
Aly Khan

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
Vladimir Putin

Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.
Anatoly Chubais

Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.
Vito Fossella

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
Vladimir Putin

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.
Henry L. Stimson

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
James A. Michener

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.
David Duke

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
Curtis Lemay

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.
Kelly Miller

The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.
Bo Gritz

The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.
Prem Rawal

The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself.
Henry L. Stimson

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.
Anatoly Chubais

The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.
Robert C. Solomon

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
Tony Benn

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.
Herman Gorter