Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
If you're so committed to liberty that you see the Soviet Union as a threat, you're a Republican. If you're kind of… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
Japan's diplomatic efforts could have had a broader international perspective. Relations with the U.S. are, of course, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy,… — Sadako Ogata Copy Share Image
The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy… — Olga Korbut Copy Share Image
“The war in China exemplified a fact often forgotten about the Second World War: globally, more non-combatants perished than uniformed participants. Civilians… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by… — Dmitriy Ustinov Copy Share Image
When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
In the '80s, we were living in the U.S.S.R., where anti-Semitism was a deeply ingrained part of the culture. Being a Jewish… — Milana Vayntrub Copy Share Image
JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
I don't believe in binational states. There are wonderful examples of this, prosperous multinational states: Switzerland, Switzerland and Switzerland. Everywhere else -… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
The mythology of the Reagan presidency is that he induced the collapse of the Soviet Union by luring it into unsustainable military… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence… — A. M. Rosenthal Copy Share Image
Kennedy was president for only 1,037 days, but during his short tenure, he achieved much. At the Cold War's most dangerous hour,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“no stereotype can explain why and how, in the six months after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a technique to… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“At that time the authorities used to love to set up their concentration camps in former monasteries: they were enclosed by strong… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The U.S., together with trans-Atlantic allies, never recognized the occupation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. Moscow faced pressure or… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
