Kennedy was president for only 1,037 days, but during his short tenure, he achieved much. At the Cold War's most dangerous hour,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared… — Konstantin Chernenko Copy Share Image
If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Whatever the drawbacks and failures I am convinced that in years to come humanity will look back to Soviet achievements as a… — Ronnie Kasrils Copy Share Image
In Russia, the people have been brought up tough. It used to be the Soviet Union. The thing everybody thinks of when… — Artem Lobov Copy Share Image
The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best. — Andrei Zhdanov Copy Share Image
I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central… — Alexander Dubcek Copy Share Image
I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . .… — James E. Webb Copy Share Image
As for the eastern part of the former Soviet Union, the picture is rather uniform. Authoritarian structures prevail to differing extents. But… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
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