Ivanka Trump Quotes

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

My parents were truly severe.

I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

My father was very strict.

My parents were very, very, very strict.

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.

Putin has demonstrated his fondness for the Cold War…. Once a KBG agent, always a KGB agent.

My parents, they were just really strict on things being perfect.

But I'm the child of a tiger mom.

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

I was thinking of writers living in East Europe before the Berlin Wall came down. They wrote fantastic stuff but were dealing with a situation that was almost impossible to deal with, but they found a way.

If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told... I was made to believe it wasn't right. If I went a little bit too off - slap! It was Dad's upbringing and it was Victorian, and that's the way he was.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

My mom was definitely very strict with me.