Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr Copy Share Image
Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh… — Barbara Olson Copy Share Image
The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s. — William Cohen Copy Share Image
The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
I lived with my parents in Belarus, and I went to Russian kindergarten, which is where I learned Russian. Belarus had just… — Yung Lean Copy Share Image
We have won on the Arlov, Kursk, Belgorod, and Kharkov grounds. We won because the country was being defended not only by… — Ivan Bagramyan Copy Share Image
In Germany, under the law everything is prohibited except that which is permitted. In France, under the law everything is permitted except… — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S.… — Colin S. Gray Copy Share Image
From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour. Aviators have personified national ideals,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“A period of transition to a new quality in all spheres of society's life is accompanied by painful phenomena. When we were… — Mikhail S. Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington's global attacks. There had never been… — William Blum Copy Share Image
Why do you think [Russians] hacked into our election? Because they have to make sure that Donald Trump got elected so that… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
On the other hand, Surrealism has been a part of Romanian literature since forever. Even before Tzara, who was originally Romanian, we… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
They said Reagan was too dangerous. It was Reagan who ended the Soviet Union without firing a shot. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
“show them, not in reasoning but in life itself, the joy of general union beyond the barriers set up by life itself” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they… — Abu Bakar Bashir Copy Share Image
I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image