“Old Norwegian Proverb: Swedes have short dicks but long memories.”
A Man Without a Country (2005)
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Interview for Vogue magazine, November 2008.

Interview on Zerkalo http://web.archive.org/web/20021117080050/http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6011-5.cfm (RTR) (29 December 2001)
2000s
Context: It looks as if some people either have a short memory and are forgetting about that time and the events that occurred then … Let us recall the putsch of August 19, 1991. It was after the putsch that the republics began, one after another, to declare their independence.
Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia. So, the entire course of history was leading to a point when the regime, the political regime in the country had to be changed. It demonstrated that the Union was not as strong as this was loudly preached by mass media and the propaganda in general. The republics wished to become independent. This must only be welcomed... We have good peaceful relations and there were no military clashes. None of these countries had revolutions with bloody casualties and there was no civil war in any of the republics... Russia had to change and it did change.


“We must always have old memories and young hopes.”
Attributed to Houssaye in: Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Gathered from the Roses, Clover Blossoms, Geraniums, Violets, Morning-glories, and Pansies of Literature, Christian Herald, 1915.

“I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.”
" Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896560/", Bravo channel, November 7, 2006.

Source: The Real and the Unreal (1961) by Bill Davidson, p. 174

“Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.”
Source: Dragonfly in Amber
Source: It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

in Hendricks, V: “500CC Computer Citations”, King’s College Publications, London,2005.

“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”