The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
My mother was really involved with the Refusenik campaign with Soviet Union Jews. They would come and stay at our house, some… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
We liberate our nation's heart inside of Indonesian independence!! Ibn Saud liberated Arabian's heart inside of Saudi Arabian independence one by one!!… — Sukarno Copy Share Image
I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States… — Charles Lichenstein Copy Share Image
I came up during the cold war, and during the cold war it was always possible with the then Soviet Union -… — Ashton Carter Copy Share Image
The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how… — Malcolm Muggeridge 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
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances… — Kevin Gutzman Copy Share Image
When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
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 life under the Soviet system - we were struggling with every big problem. Publicly, my parents had to queue up… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
“He who does not regret the breakup of the Soviet Union has no heart. He who wants to revive it in its… — Michael Rank Copy Share Image
“with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality. — Vladimir Lenin 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
America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S. — Eric Braeden Copy Share Image
We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Trump's affinity for Russia dates back at least to the late 1980s, during the time of the Soviet Union, and it intensified… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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