Russian Government Quotes:

Russian government attacked our election.

- Rachel Maddow

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Government, Election, Russian Government

I have no relationship with the Russian government at all.

- Edward Snowden

source: "Traitor or Patriot? Edward Snowden Sits Down With Brian Williams". www.nbcnews.com. May 28, 2014.

topic: Memorable, Government, Russian Government

As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline.

- Wentworth Miller

source: "Wentworth Miller Comes Out as Gay in Letter Slamming Russia's LGBT Crackdown" by Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2013.

topic: Country, Attitude, Gay, Russian Government

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

source: "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone and Saul Isaacson, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

topic: Opportunity, Russia, Government, Nato, Russian Government

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

source: "Vladimir Putin outdoes himself with 'record-making' televised Q&A" by Miriam Elder, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2013.

topic: Grateful, Fate, Russia, Russian Government

If the Russian government continues to pump money into it and makes their national teams train in Sochi and just sort of prop it up as a point of pride, then perhaps. But I don't think anybody living there was begging for multiple 40,000-seat venues to be plopped down in the city.

- Gary Hustwit

source: Source: www.salon.com

topic: Team, Pride, Thinking, Russian Government, National Team

Hilary Clinton stated multiple times, falsely, that seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That is false; we can say that the Russian government is not the source.

- Julian Assange

source: Source: www.zerohedge.com

topic: Russia, Agency, Government, Seventeen, Hilary Clinton

News about the Russia connections to the [Donald Trump] administration and what we are continuing to learn about those connections. What`s getting to be, I think, particularly unsettling is that simultaneously we are right now what`s going on, I think, is that we are number one nailing down more direct connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government at the time the Russian government was influencing our election.

- Rachel Maddow

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Thinking, Continuing To Learn, Numbers, Russian Government

We`ve got [evidence] of direct Russian government connections with the [Donald] Trump campaign, during the campaign, while the Russian government was interfering in our election to try to elect Trump.

- Rachel Maddow

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Government, Trying, Campaigns, Russian Government

Silencing the U.S. State Department, putting a friend of Vladimir Putin`s in charge at the U.S. State Department, who stands by quietly while the State Department gets hollowed out, gets gutted, that`s a dream for the Russian government, right? That`s a dream for Putin.

- Rachel Maddow

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Dream, Government, Putin, Russian Government, Silencing

We got the first WikiLeaks publication of documents hacked and stolen by Russian government sources from the DNC, from the Democratic Party, and they started publishing those stolen documents from the DNC right before the Democrats started their convention.Good political timing if you`re trying to help [Donald] Trump and hurt the Democrats.

- Rachel Maddow

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Hurt, Party, Government, Good Political, Russian Government

WikiLeaks is a lot of things. This past year, WikiLeaks was a tool of Russian intelligence and the Russian government and their interference operation against the American presidential election to benefit Donald Trump.

- Rachel Maddow

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Past, Government, Years, American President, Presidential Election

What's really important about WikiLeaks is that the Russian government has engaged in espionage against Americans. They have hacked American websites, American accounts of private people, of institutions. Then they have given that information to WikiLeaks for the purpose of putting it on the Internet.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

topic: Government, People, Important, Russian Government, Hacked

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

source: "Covering Hillary Clinton, A Candidate 'Forged In The Crucible' Of Conflict". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 27, 2016.

topic: New York, White, Agency, Russian Government, New York Times

Russian government was in contact with multiple [Donald] Trump campaign sources while they were doing [attacks]. Russian nemesis in the American government, U.S. State Department, CIA, are not faring well since Donald Trump came to power.

- Rachel Maddow

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Government, Campaigns, States, Nemesis, Russian Government

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

topic: Government, Listening, Citizens, Ussr, Russian Government

We know that Russian intelligence services, which is part of the Russian government which is under the firm control of Vladimir Putin, hacked into the DNC. And we know that he arranged for a lot of those emails to be released.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Hillary Clinton on tight race, accusations against Trump". www.foxnews.com. July 31, 2016.

topic: Government, Intelligence Services, Email, Russian Government, Hacked

I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through sexual identity issue and we should help to channel these urges in productive behavior. Heterosexuality is God’s design. Policies that encourage young people to think this are good ideas.

- Bryan Fischer

topic: Teenager, Struggle, Thinking, Russian Government, Heterosexuality Is

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

- Lindsey Graham

topic: Reality, Iran, Government, Russian Government

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

topic: Couple, Government, Lasts, Reducing, Czechoslovakia

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

topic: Gay, Winter, Opportunity, Russian Government, Sochi

Now, just think, to accuse me of such a crime. Think of it! I, who have for twenty-five years single- handed struggled against the invasion of the Russian Government into American money markets, and to this day stave them off. Think of it! Who, as I, have been foremost in the past for agitation and insisted to the President of the United States; as some of you must know, that our treaty with Russia must be abrogated.

- Jacob Schiff

topic: Past, Thinking, Years, Russian Government