My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston Massachusetts Brookline Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

Most of the food imported to Russia came from China.

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Whenever I have friends over we end up eating and talking and losing track of time and once in a while singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France from Russia from America from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there and it will last forever.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.