There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.
In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia. . . . All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.
Quiet down, we don't want to wake the Russians.
I think that's coming to an end. And, you know, when we. . . we can't beg them [russians] to get along with us. And I think there was some of that going on, which has now ended.
To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.
I do support the effort to investigate for crimes, war crimes committed by the Syrians and the Russians and try to hold them accountable.
So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.
The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
Our current administration is a patchwork - some from the French, some from the Swiss, the Turks, the Ottomans; then the Russians came; now we have a global presence. We need to create a system that is organic and can function for the whole state. Currently, foreign policy here is domestic policy.
I think raise doubts that's what Russians are doing around the world. I think they're trying to do that. I think they're trying to cause everything to be in question. We see them playing in a lot of different elections and trying to do that, because that's all they've got.
I actually think that the Russians are exploring the idea: Is it worth ending this conflict in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine, creating peace, getting out, and what would that look like? I don't think they're committed to it yet; I don't think they've made a decision one way or the other - but I think they're exploring it.
It is interesting that [James Comey] is not doing investigations about the possible - possible ties between [Donald] Trump's campaign and the Russians.
It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin but did not even know of Marx or Engels. The salvos of the October Revolution awoke us to Marxism-Leninism.
This is all very interesting, but Donald Trump won in an electoral landslide that had nothing to do with the Russians.
The Russians are a very sentimental people.
If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.
We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They have a naval base, they have an air base in Syria.
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
I don't think there's any equivalency between the way that the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.