"Vladimir Putin knows exactly what he wants from the relationship with USA. In return for good relations, he wants lifting of sanctions, ratification, approval of his wars in Ukraine and Syria, and his dream of dreams, an acknowledgment of his sphere of influence in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Michael McFaul

#Dream Quotes #War Quotes #Influence Quotes

“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.”
“I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.”
“I have a rescue dog named Fideo, which means 'noodle' in Spanish, and a cat named Hutch.”
“The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.”

Source : "One Man's America". Book by George F. Will, Chapter 15, Lingerie and Duct Tape (p. 118), 2008.
“In politics you learn to always smile.”
“I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head”
“One's strongest asset is simultaneously his point of strongest vulnerability.”
“I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.”

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