Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed,… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Trump's affinity for Russia dates back at least to the late 1980s, during the time of the Soviet Union, and it intensified… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
“Just clip the red one," Cyrus told her. "They're all red," Erica informed him. "They are?" Cyrus asked. "Curse those Soviets! Everything… — Stuart Gibbs Copy Share Image
The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“And the new Kremlin won’t make the same mistake the old Soviet Union did: it will never let TV become dull. The… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
It's a war to control our children. State control through drugs, just as practiced in the Soviet Union. With Hillary [Clinton] and… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
What does nonalignment mean? It means we don't belong to any military bloc and that we reserve the right to be friends… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy.… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't think we replaced the Soviet Union with Al Qaida. I think we replaced, we should have, Soviet Union with the… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world.… — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Soviet Union, ballroom dancing wasn't the coolest thing to do. But that probably made me tougher, because it… — Artem Lobov Copy Share Image
“It would be so nice to have a real choice, fumed Gyuri. It was like Hungary being between Germany and the Soviet… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought the last Soviet generation was going to be the great hope for democracy. When that… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
If it is bin Laden, he's a very intelligent guy. He's been planning his war for a long time. I remember the… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
“An interlocking set of new enemies was emerging: globalization, foreigners, multiculturalism, environmental regulation, high taxes, and the incompetent politicians who could not… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
Nowadays, there are plans to separate the Baltic states from the common power system of the former Soviet Union and to integrate… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line,… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I grew up during the Communist time. When I was a student and I especially wanted to play rock, that was a… — Albert Kuvezin Copy Share Image
Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“In the Great Terror in the Soviet Union, NKVD officers recorded 682,691 executions of supposed enemies of the state, most of them… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of… — David E. Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying… — Elena Gorokhova Copy Share Image
Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela. These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought… — Vladislav Surkov Copy Share Image
People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
The Army I grew up in was focused on high-intensity conflict against a peer competitor called the Soviet Union. — Mark Esper Copy Share Image