Soviet Politician

Famous quotes containing the words soviet and/or politician:

    “The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)