"In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society."

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Source : "Russian revolution" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2007.

Gary Shteyngart

#America Quotes #Russia Quotes #Unions Quotes

“I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.”

Source : Source: medium.com
“You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, â€œWhat's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?”
“I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.”
“So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.”

Source : Associated Press interview, 1997.
“Passion is overcome only by him who has won through stillness of spirit the perfect vision; it comes through the contentment that is regardless of the world.”
“International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal principles of economics, domestic politics, and international relations over other, nonliberal principles. It will last only as long as those who imposed it retain the capacity to defend it.”

Source : "America has made the world freer, safer and wealthier" by Robert Kagan, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2012.
“According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.”
“[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.”

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