The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally…

Before 9/11, absolutely, there were concerns about terrorism; but the world fundamentally changed.

— Richard Fadden

Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial…

— P. J. O'Rourke

At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can,…

— Vladimir Kramnik

For hundreds of millions of people, the fall of the Berlin Wall was a great triumph: The moment marked the end of hated dictatorships…

— Anne Applebaum

NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from…

— Noam Chomsky

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall?…

— Luc Besson

Certainly my parents were very political, so the whole Berlin Wall thing - and being a kid of the '80s - that's just something…

— Miriam Shor

I think NATO needs to redefine itself. There has been no substantial thought about what NATO is for since the Berlin Wall came down.

— Nigel Farage

His mouth is a no-go area. It's like kissing the Berlin Wall.

— Helena Bonham Carter

“The ethos of East Berlin punk infused the city with a radical egalitarianism and a DIY approach to maintaining independence-to conjuring up the world…

— Tim Mohr

Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

— Lucy Walker

From the beginning, we failed to overcome Europe's division. The Berlin Wall fell, but invisible walls were moved to the East of Europe. This…

— Vladimir Putin

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall…

— Salman Rushdie

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

— Lech Walesa