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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Winston Churchill

Inside, Mystery, Enigma

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan

Tell, Forever, Five

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
Robert Frost

Great, Someone, Country

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Bill Cosby

Time, Good, Wife

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen

Peace, War, Read

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.
Hillary Clinton

Leaders, Choose, Comment

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.
Hillary Clinton

Strong, Both, China

China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.
Hillary Clinton

Around, Language, Television

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?
Milton Friedman

Society, Greed, Tell

Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.
Luke Scott

Life, Attitude, Give

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.
Henry Rollins

Love, Hate, Telling

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Living, Dead, While

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff

Men, Waiting, Year

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
Vladimir Putin

Nothing, Human, Democracy

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
Otto von Bismarck

Politics, Good, Secret

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

Nothing, Jesus, Christ

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.
Maria Sharapova

Life, Parents, Living

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.
Maria Sharapova

Family, Time, End

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'
Maria Sharapova

Moving, Living, Everyone

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Mother, Game, Pretending

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
Joni Mitchell

Music, Night, Down

Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
Ben Stein

Bad, City, News

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Living, Dead, Dog

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
Arlen Specter

Success, Money, Great

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.
James Buchan

War, Violence, Far

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Today, Else, Between

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
James Lovelock

War, America, Cold

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Today, Word, Africa

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.
Ehud Olmert

Great, Government, Doubt

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.
Pete Seeger

Made, Call, Communism

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