In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
There is no way to avoid the reality that the American government in the past years has been the most spectacularly hypocrisy-driven… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh… — Barbara Olson Copy Share Image
Were there open gays and lesbians before the West started influencing Russia? No, there weren't. In fact, the most out person in… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We have our differences with Russia. And some of those differences produce conflict. But by no means is this the Soviet Union.… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Strong countries and strong presidents talk to their adversaries. That's what Kennedy did with Khrushchev. That's what Reagan did with Gorbachev. That's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Over the course of the year 1990, the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had many conversations with President… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
And further, I tell you that the Jew is right, when he acts as he does - because we are too timid… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He's… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
