The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried,… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
“Do you know what China is?” Ogden asked. “It’s the Soviet Union on steroids. It’s Russia with a world-class economy and ten… — Matthew FitzSimmons Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union collapsed without a lot of people thinking it should or would, whereas for Estonia, it was something we'd been… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does notconcede… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“Given how carefully choreographed Mr Putin’s public appearances are, the question itself touched a nerve in Kazakhstan. The country’s single greatest uncertainty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life. — Anna Kournikova Copy Share Image
“When Communism fell in 1989, the temptation for Western commentators to gloat triumphantly proved irresistible. This, it was declared, marked the end… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
As a Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union, I felt it was ridiculous to expect me to atone for the sins of… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
If you're so committed to liberty that you see the Soviet Union as a threat, you're a Republican. If you're kind of… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years. — Alex North Copy Share Image
“ Ungratified sexuality is readily transformed into rage. "Prison explosions" are outbreaks of sadism resulting from the absence of sexual gratification. Hence,… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
“At the Yalta Conference in early 1945, Franklin Roosevelt had made it clear that he had little interest in further close collaboration… — Lynne Olson Copy Share Image
“Whether the recollection is of fascist Italy in the 1920s, of Nazi Germany of the 1930s, of the Soviet Union during the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I don't believe in binational states. There are wonderful examples of this, prosperous multinational states: Switzerland, Switzerland and Switzerland. Everywhere else -… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
“One major reason why radical economic reform was almost impossibly difficult to introduce in the Soviet Union was the strength of vested… — Archie Brown Copy Share Image
