I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style…

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess…

— Gabe Polsky

I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

— David Lange

I decided to go into politics because my children are growing up, and I became worried about the ways things are being handled in…

— Yair Lapid

Freedom, by its nature, must be chosen, and defended by citizens, and sustained by the rule of law and the protection of minorities. And…

— George W. Bush

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came…

— Herbert Hoover

“Mr. Harappa,' the Angrez television interviewer is asking, 'many commentators would say, there is a widely-held view, some sectors of opinion maintain, your opponents…

— Salman Rushdie

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

— Ron Paul

The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish…

— Vladimir Bukovsky

Russia can fall apart. It's not because of the oil prices ... It's because what sticks a country together is a common interest of…

— Ilya Ponomarev

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

— Fulton J. Sheen

I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I…

— Timothy Garton Ash

The ultimate goal of the whole policy of peaceful co-existence was to make progress on the basic goal laid down by Lenin of a…

— Paul Nitze

I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia…

— David E. Hoffman

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can…

— Arundhati Roy

Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,…

— Joseph Stalin