The Chinese did after all decide that the Soviet Union was a greater threat than the United States and decided to come… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual,… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Real dystopias are more like the old Soviet Union rather than Mad Max: They are stiflingly bureaucratic rather than lawless.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“In 1994, the FBI discovered its agent Robert Hanssen—a longtime spy for the Soviet Union—had on August 7, 1989, placed in a… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire… — Kurt Schrader Copy Share Image
“She was going to get to stay alive. At the same time, she and the others got very little information from the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed -- socialism doesn't work, — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Reagan saw the Soviet Union as evil, all right, and not only because it was responsible for the deaths of tens of… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore. — Yakov Smirnoff Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“The isolationists kept up a loud chorus of denunciation and formed the America First Committee to make sure that the ‘mistake’ of… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and in the 18th and 19th… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
“again concluded that the Soviet Union “with a high degree of confidence” could kill the president, vice president, and all fourteen remaining… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
