When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy.… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
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
Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that… — Mahan Esfahani 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
It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so… — John Amery 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
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
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
We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up… — Jeffrey Sachs 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
Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
In the 1950s, Pakistan allied with the United States in something called the Central Treaty Organization. We were lined up with, at… — Wesley Clark 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
The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the… — William Z. Foster 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
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One question that people always ask at home is never asked here: "What happened to Communism in Russia?" Everybody yawns when a… — Arthur Koestler 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
