Assad owes his continuation in power to the intervention of Russia in 2015 to prop up his regime.

You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.

America does, in the future, need to have a conversation with and try to move forward with Russia.

I had to deal with casual sexism while working as a pundit for ITV during the World Cup in Russia.

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

What's happening in Russia of course is you have a country watching out for its national interest.

[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.

For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.

There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.

If Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that.

If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.

Russia isn't likely to have any more military success in Syria and Iraq than has the United States.

On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].

Why does the world dislike Russia? I do not think that we are unloved or considered to be ignorant.

Russia and the U.S. have unique experience in ensuring the safety and security of nuclear material.

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

Despite the economic disaster that is Russia, there are still air shows taking place in the country.

Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.

Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

Just make it (his obituary): born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917.

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

When Putin says good things and when we have a possibility of having a good relationship with Russia.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

Being independent caused us nothing but trouble. I do not want Chechnya to be independent from Russia.

Outside of the Moscow elite and a very small urban elite, Russia is one great big blue-collar country.

Russia is a European country, and so we'd better, if we want a powerful Europe, negotiate with Russia.

The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.

[Rex] Tillerson is there to get these sanctions [against Russia] lifted. I believe it. Just watch him!

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

I do know that, you know, Donald Trump has a global portfolio, and many global investors are in Russia.

We have politicized the issue of Russia to a point that we can't have a sensible conversation about it.

Russia's oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat.

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

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

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

'Child 44' has no room for inconsequential choices because Stalinist Russia had no room for them, either.

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

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

Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.

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