For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's… — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile… — David Kay Copy Share Image
Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet… — John F. Kerry 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
Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility.… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of the whole policy of peaceful co-existence was to make progress on the basic goal laid down by Lenin… — Paul Nitze 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
Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
In 'Chernobyl,' which was created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck, the material culture of the Soviet Union… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western… — Noam Chomsky 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
The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is also this great sense of triumphalism, that just as we defeated the Soviet Union, we can do this. And out… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in.… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“And when the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991, Dick wanted to see the dismantlement not only of the Soviet Union… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
The second touchstone for America I think unquestionably was pushing to conclusion the program we had with the Russians to control the… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon,… — Ronnie Dunn Copy Share Image
In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York… — Will Sergeant Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union attempted to export communism to the entire world. We know what came of that. Now the West is trying… — Vladimir Yakunin Copy Share Image
So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would… — Ralph Boston Copy Share Image
I'm of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We have, a Democrat Party once again adding to the civility of the discourse, Maxine Waters claiming that [Donald] Trump and his… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
![“With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on…” quote by Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ac/ronald-reagan-119_airplane_with-all-this-talk-about-the-supposed-st_2183576.jpg)
![“It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.” quote by Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/521/ronald-reagan-119_ashes_it-is-the-soviet-union-that-runs-against_2608693.jpg)
![“In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.” quote by Leon Trotsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01b/leon-trotsky-2558_bureaucracy_in-stalin-each-soviet-bureaucrat-easily_198840.jpg)
![“We have, a Democrat Party once again adding to the civility of the discourse, Maxine Waters claiming that [Donald] Trump and his people are scumbags 'cause Trump wants to help [Vladimir] Putin put the Soviet Union back together by raping a bunch of other countries and stealing their resources.” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfa/rush-limbaugh-28_back-together_we-have-a-democrat-party-once-again-addi_280550.jpg)
