Russia Quotes

The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.
There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'
We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.
You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation.
I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
I am a normal guy.
I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
Business is not the aim of life; it's a game.
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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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25 August, 1934
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