There (in the Soviet Union) it was a science. In order to…

What I found interesting about Slava Fetisov was that he went through three different generations of Soviet hockey. In the late 70's, he experienced…

— Gabe Polsky

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to…

— Jack Kemp

It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on their own.…

— Sergio Leone

I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of…

— Cornel West

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie…

— Ann Coulter

Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions of human…

— Mary Robinson

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington's global attacks. There had never been an International…

— William Blum

The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons…

— Bernard Lewis

The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

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