The Russia House Quotes

#1. Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

Boris Yeltsin

#2. There should be a word for what happens when you begin to ruin a feeling by saying it.

Sam Pink

#3. In a valley betwixt two hills there I stood perfectly still. In this stance I did find the most beautiful secrets of my mind

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#4. I love you,' he repeated. 'All my failures were preparations for meeting you.

John Le Carre

#5. If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

Walter Lippmann

#6. The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia.

Craig Ferguson

#7. Sarah Palin said perhaps the most irresponsible thing I've ever heard any politician say. She said, 'The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.' You think she realizes that nuking Russia might not be good for someone who can see Russia from her house?

Bill Maher

#8. We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

Edward Abbey

#9. Sometimes I wonder what I would be like if left to revert to nature - with

Helen Fielding

#10. I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.

Gary Shteyngart

#11. Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American.

Thomas W. Horton

#12. And I can see Russia from my house.

Tina Fey

#13. values of Christianity - sacrifice, redemption, forgiveness - because

Paul Kalanithi