Anastas Mikoyan: Quotes about people

Anastas Mikoyan was Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Anastas Mikoyan: 28 quotes1 like

“We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers—that is not freedom of the press.”

Anastas Mikoyan

Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote (1959)

“We are accused of all sorts of terrible things, of us wanting to undermine your market, of dumping and so forth. There was no such talk before, but when you had your recession, there were people who wanted to put the whole blame on the Russians. All these fables of us being such terrible devils are not well founded. We want to trade in earnest and well.”

Anastas Mikoyan

Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote (1959)

“Ordinary people abroad take a better attitude toward men who come as guests with their wives. And if they are accompanied by other members of their family, that disposes people even more favorably toward them. Therefore, I would propose that Khrushchev take Nina Petrovna with him and also include in the delegation other members of his family. This will be well received by ordinary Americans, and that would be better for us.”

Anastas Mikoyan

As quoted in "Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, Vol. 3 : Statesman (2007), by Nikita Khrushchev, p. 95

“All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture… There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all… I have many friends who are Jews.”

Anastas Mikoyan

Statement of January 1959, as quoted in "The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948-1967" (1984), p. 66