Those who warned that Gorbachev was being put under too much pressure were wrong. — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev. — Armie Hammer Copy Share Image
The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I love art. I used to have a painting of Mikhail Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev. — Armie Hammer Copy Share Image
... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase… — William Safire Copy Share Image
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also… — Vladimir Sorokin 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
Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing… — Cyrus Broacha Copy Share Image
He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes…There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have met in my life two big destroyers: Gorbachev, who destroyed the Soviet Union, and Cameron, who destroyed the United Kingdom… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
I performed six concerts all over the U.S.S.R. during the time of Gorbachev. The entire audience was Russian. There were no Indians.… — Asha Bhosle Copy Share Image
The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Eisenhower provided the first break in the Cold War, by bringing Khrushchev to the United States, in humanizing the Soviets; and then… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
Mikhail Gorbachev's historic leadership, which transformed Russia and international relations, cannot be fully understood without the diary-memoir of Anatoly Chernyaev, one of… — Stephen F. Cohen Copy Share Image
“Although at the time I didn’t realize this, the Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev had begun promoting ‘glasnost’ or political openness throughout… — Andrea White Copy Share Image
For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
I can't imagine here would be a Chinese Gorbachev. But the party will gradually open up. For instance, it has already set… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote,… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the… — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him...and try to… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy.… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
The citizen lives in each of us. In the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, I was constantly trying to suppress… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
“I couldn t help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting him, and I… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
![“He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes…There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does not come across as something peaceful within himself. It's the look of a kind of human volcano, or he'd probably like to describe it as a…” quote by Dan Rather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ed6/dan-rather-2779_beam_he-mikhail-gorbachev-has-as-many-great-l_117079.jpg)
![“I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.” quote by Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9d9/ronald-reagan-119_antiwar_i-couldn-t-help-but-say-to-mr-gorbachev_137158.jpg)
![“For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff I was taking about. In 1990-91, no Russian hordes. Okay, what happens? Well there are actually visions of the future system that were presented. One was [Mikhail] Gorbachev…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/71f/noam-chomsky-42_common_for-fifty-years-we-heard-nato-is-necessa_1276924.jpg)
![“When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt against (then Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, and eight years after the people had torn down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the hated…” quote by Garry Kasparov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bda/garry-kasparov-910_capable_when-vladimir-putin-a-former-lieutenant_1098683.jpg)
![“Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev in the 80s, My Way had just become a famous song, and [Mikhail] Gorbachev in a satirical, kind of cynical manner coined the term the Sinatra Doctrine and My Way was the song because the…” quote by Robert Davi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/413/robert-davi-17031_80s_here-i-was-in-estonia-doing-a-concert-fo_770631.jpg)
![“If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our insistence on nuclear defense, because they knew they couldn't match us.” quote by Rudy Giuliani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c45/rudy-giuliani-958_cold_if-you-read-history-right-if-you-read-mi_1131215.jpg)
