Europe Quotes by Anne Applebaum

Quite a lot has been written, including by me, about the effect of social media on politics, and in particular the way in which…

— Anne Applebaum

After Trump became president, it was really too late to investigate his dodgy investments in Azerbaijan or his links to Russian money laundering. Those…

— Anne Applebaum

If Reagan and John Paul II were linked by anything, it was a grand, ambitious, and generous idea of Western political civilization, one in…

— Anne Applebaum

Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared,…

— Anne Applebaum

The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.

— Anne Applebaum

One knows, of course, that Donald Trump behaves differently from the leaders of other countries, especially the leaders of other Western democracies.

— Anne Applebaum

As a nation, we are not good at long-term planning, and no wonder: Our political system insists that every president be allowed to appoint…

— Anne Applebaum

Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics.

— Anne Applebaum

Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it.

— Anne Applebaum

Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a long and…

— Anne Applebaum

The hard truth is that Trump was not exceptional. He was just another amoral Western businessman, one of many whom the ex-KGB elite have…

— Anne Applebaum

Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. Caputova sought to be the anti-ego alternative.

— Anne Applebaum