#russia

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

— Carly Patterson

#china #hard #i #i think #now

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#afghanistan #alone #because #empires #feel

I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#almost #as far as #been #closet #college

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#color #felt #first #first time #full

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

#get #go #hate #i #i love

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#glad #nato #russia #very #well

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#fear #feared #ike #me #russians

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#everybody #feel #never #russia #safe

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

#homosexuality #list #locked #locked up #men

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 news #ban #because #build #capital