We will stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. We will stop that nuclear arms race that could happen in the Middle… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary,… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the… — George Will Copy Share Image
One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I don't want to predict calamity. But I am afraid of a new Russian occupation of parts of Eastern Europe. Also of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“Bosnia is known as the powder keg of Yugoslavia, which itself is known as the powder keg of the Balkans, which in… — Peter Maas Copy Share Image
As one looks back, one sees that the fall of the Berlin Wall opened the door to three developments - the Eurozone,… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
“Whether the recollection is of fascist Italy in the 1920s, of Nazi Germany of the 1930s, of the Soviet Union during the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
After making my notes in the afternoon, I usually visit the fighters in their dressing rooms before they go out. I check… — Michael Buffer Copy Share Image
I tell you, my fellow Americans, that if we learned anything from the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the fall of… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think that in this globalised world, the local is going to become more and more important - it is a paradox.… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
“In Eastern Europe, we are suspicious of the 'h' and the 'j.' The 'h,' when it is small, looks like a chair.… — James Marshall Copy Share Image
I think that's the nature of the region, not even simply Eastern Europe but the Balkans. They are their own region. They… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
“I am speaking, as I know it is rude to do, of the Social Darwinists, the eugenicists, the Imperialists, the Scientific Socialists… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Look again at the standard Mercator map and you see that Greenland appears to be the same size as Africa, and yet… — Tim Marshall Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin and Russia. 'When a bear wakes up from hibernation, he doesn't eat a few blueberries and then go back to… — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
In the '30s and '40s, the search for Hungarian national identity led famously to an alliance with Hitler and the destruction of… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
The largest weight is now on Germany's shoulders. Chancellor Merkel must continue to convince people of the EU's importance; she must spearhead… — Anthony Glees Copy Share Image
I definitely think my ancestry has something to do with my politics. And I think being deeply suspicious of government and communists… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“That’s different. The French know that the English are superior to them and they’re appropriate about it. The Eastern Europeans on the… — Colin Browne Copy Share Image
I do think, from the other side, that George W. ush was somewhat of an innocent in his thinking about what Ronald… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
But how can you speed up the transformation of society in a country as large as Russia? Those sounding the moral outcry… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Every argument that Margaret Thatcher ever made internationally didn't have a great deal to do with her contempt for Communism - she… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“General George Patton and others lamented that the Second World War had broken out in 1939 over saving the free peoples of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
From hearty beet-red borscht and soft, pliable pierogi dumplings to dill-scented pickles and hearty braises, the food of Eastern Europe - that… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
“Only a few places allowed Jews to settle openly and in large numbers. Among them were Italy, particularly the Papal States (territories… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
