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Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality. -- Lindsey Graham
I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government. -- Vladimir Putin
My government is in no sense anti-Russian. -- Donald Tusk
I have no relationship with the Russian government at all. -- Edward Snowden
The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets. -- Mikhail Prokhorov
The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine. -- Richard Engel
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders. -- Alexei Mordashov
The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it. -- Lincoln Steffens
I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia. -- John McCain
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside. -- Vladimir Putin
Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries. -- Herman Gorter
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB. -- Martin Cruz Smith
If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business. -- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
In China, Vietnam, Russia and several former Soviet states, the dominant social networks are run by local companies whose relationship with the government actually constrains the empowering potential of social networks. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
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
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia. -- Benjamin Harrison
In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government. -- Alexei Mordashov
In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization. -- Edward Grey
It's sad to think right now, but probably the Russian and Chinese government know more about Hillary Clinton's e-mail server than do the members of the United States Congress. And - and that has put our national security at risk. -- Scott Walker
I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously. -- Edward Grey
While the behavior of the Russian government, Putin and Putin punks are abhorrent, nothing will be changed by boycotting the Sochi Winter Games. In fact, those who are appalled by the treatment of LGBT Russian citizens will lose an incredible opportunity for the world to show their disgust. -- David Mixner
Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and the USSR back. And the Russian government is listening. -- Andre Vltchek
Around 2008 and again in 2013 NATO officially offered the Ukraine the opportunity to join NATO. That's something no Russian government is ever going to accept. It's right at the geopolitical heartland of Russia. -- Noam Chomsky
It's been reported - in fact, The New York Times has reported that intelligence agencies have told the White House that they now have, quote, "high confidence" that the Russian government was behind the hack. -- Terry Gross

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