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I'm very inspired by the artfulness and soulfulness of the Russian people.

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

If you love Russia, you have to love Godunov.

There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

The Russians are a very sentimental people.