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There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.


Henry L. Stimson


#been #between #feeling #getting #government

Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.


Ann Patchett


#russians #humor

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.


W. Averell Harriman


#been #effort #had #i #justified

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.


George F. Kennan


#let us #russian #russians #thing #us

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.


Paul Erdos


#destroy #education #invented #russians #something

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.


Tom Clancy


#edge #over #probably #pushed #realized

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.


Deidre Hall


#come #find #government #how #i

As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.


W. Averell Harriman


#as far as #buy #concerned #dependent #far

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.


Paul von Hindenburg


#assault #before #bodies #clear #enemy

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.


Garry Kasparov


#democracy #distorted #economy #i #i think