“I know something about Mr. Khrushchev. ...Mr. Khrushchev himself, it is said, told the story about the Russian who began to run through the Kremlin shouting, 'Khrushchev is a fool, Khrushchev is a fool.' He was sentanced, he said, to twenty-three years in prison: three for insulting the party secretary, and twenty for revealing a state secret.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Khrushchev should get a one-ton medal.”
Mao Tse-Tung
“And I remember sitting in my car, listening to that night ... when Kennedy and Khrushchev were facing off and it was very scary.”
Christopher Walken
“I have to disagree with the Russian coach. We would not have changed our game plan if the Russians had scored one goal.”
Brent Sutter
“They were interested, but they have never really demonstrated that they were interested in the Russian proposal as the Russians had actually put it forward.”
Condoleezza Rice
“We certainly know that Russians participated. Russian volunteers, mercenaries, we believe, did participate with paramilitary and other Serb forces.”
Kenneth Bacon
“Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.”
Joseph Brodsky
