Quotes tagged ‘Russia’

“Visuals, because of their persuasive potential and attention-grabbing nature, are an especially potent choice for those seeking to mislead. Where creating, editing or sharing inauthentic visual content isn’t satire or art, it is usually politically or economically motivated.”

— PBS News Hour, pbs.org

“U.S. officials have told Sen. Bernie Sanders that Russia is attempting to help his presidential campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the Democratic contest, according to people familiar with the matter.”

— Shane Harris, msn.com

“Bud: Credit is a sacred trust, it's what our free society is founded on. Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia? I said, do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia? Otto: They don't pay bills in Russia, it's all free. Bud: All free? Free my ass. What are you, a fuck…”

— Alex Cox, Bud, Harry Dean Stanton, imdb.com

“Think about it: If you come to this country from Germany, or Russia, or anywhere, you get off the boat, get on the land. But in order to become an American, you have to be white.”

— Toni Morrison, granta.com

“I don’t like the term witch hunt. As an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same.”

— Michael Cohen, bustle.com

“As you can see, I am about to inaugurate a little war. In a matter of hours after America and Russia have annihilated each other. We shall see a new power dominating the world.”

— Roald Dahl, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Donald Pleasence, imdb.com

“[after escaping out of a small jail cell] Kara Milovy: You were fantastic. We're free. James Bond: Kara, we're inside a Russian airbase in the middle of Afghanistan.”

— Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson, James Bond, Timothy Dalton, imdb.com

“You and your student comrades might want to go and live in Russia but, here, in the free West, we try not to inform on our pals.”

— Chris Niel, Vincent Swan, Ed Westwick, imdb.com

“[discussing how they should destroy “Clarence Dollars", the currency system that Clarence invented] Jeff: We need to flood the market with them! Clarence: Exactly! We’ll flood the school! Jeff: No, no, no. I mean make so many Clarence Dollars that no one will use them anymore. Like Soviet money!”

— Skyler Page, Patrick Harpin, Jeff Randell (voice) / Clarence Wendle (voice), Sean Giambrone / Skyler Page, imdb.com

“The problem with meteors like the one that exploded over Russia? We just don't even know they're there until it's too late.”

— Elizabeth Kruger, Amanda Charles, Shazi Raja, imdb.com

“Lucius Washington: You're not gonna live forever. Ricky Bobby: No one lives forever, no one. But with advances in modern science and my high level income, it's not crazy to think I can live to be 245, maybe 300. Heck, I just read in the newspaper that they put a pig heart in some guy from Russia. Do…”

— Will Ferrell, Ricky Bobby, Will Ferrell, imdb.com

“When I was a boy, my father moved us from Russia to the Upper East Side. He was weak, my father—never stood up. One day, on the way to school, I was stopped by a gang of older boys. The leader said he wanted my lunch money. I told him, go fuck himself. He laughed, said he'd beat it out of me, so I s…”

— David Matthews, Meyer Lansky, Anatol Yusef, imdb.com

“A prominent businessman who does a lot of business with the Soviet Union calls to keep me posted on a construction project I’m interested in undertaking in Moscow. The idea got off the ground after I sat next to the Soviet Ambassador, Yuri Dubinin, at a luncheon held by Leonard Lauder, a great busin…”

— Donald Trump, books.google.com

“If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. Neither of them thinks anything of their pledged word.”

— Harry S Truman, content.time.com

“Every day that goes by is another where we learn more about troubling connections among Trump, his campaign associates, and members of his family, together with the Russian government. What began as a most-concerning network of connections has now evolved into a genuine counterintelligence investiga…”

— Sheila Jackson Lee, stylemagazine.com

“I must really say that he is a veteran Communist, this Herr Josip Broz, a consistent man. Unfortunately he is our enemy. He really has earned his title of Marshal. When we catch him we shall do him in at once; you can be sure of that; he is our enemy. But I wish we had a dozen Titos in Germany...The…”

— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.org

“Some information and observations of recent date have led me to draw up plans that I would like to bring to your attention. This concerns Jehovah’s Witnesses....How are we going to govern and pacify Russia when...we will have conquered vast areas of its territory?...All forms of religion and the pac…”

— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.org

“It is a war of ideologies and struggle between races. On one side stands National Socialism: ideology, founded on the values of our Germanic, Nordic blood. It is worth the world as we want to see: beautiful, orderly, fair, socially, a world that may be, still suffers some flaws, but overall a happy,…”

— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.org

“Compare Holland with Russia; you see only marshy and sterile islands in the former, which rise from the center of the ocean: a small republic which is only 48 miles length by 40 wide. But this small body is the very nerve-center of the region: immense people live in it, and these industrious people…”

— Frederick the Great, amazon.com

“The Russians came with serious intent to carry out barbaric violence. They were highly organised, very effective. We saw football hooliganism on a different level.”

— Ch Supt Steve Neill, theguardian.com