Pastoral Resources

We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake.

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.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops.

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.

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