Gorbachev Quotes
24 quotes by 16 authors
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Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished…
— Russell Baker
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I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if…
— Ronald Reagan
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General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to…
— Ronald Reagan
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Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states…
— Murray Rothbard
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I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
— Margaret Thatcher
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He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes....There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does…
— Dan Rather
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I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.
— Armie Hammer
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... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.
— William Safire
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The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen to…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And get a massage - you look really stressed
— Ronald Reagan
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I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
— David Remnick
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Strong countries and strong presidents talk to their adversaries. That's what Kennedy did with Khrushchev. That's what Reagan did with Gorbachev. That's what Nixon did…
— Barack Obama
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Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom…
— Boris Yeltsin
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An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk…
— Ronald Reagan
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A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting…
— Russell Baker
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Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.
— Frank Zappa
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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
— John Major
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Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
— Ronald Reagan
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The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev…
— Mitt Romney
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
— P.J. O'Rourke
Who Wrote These Gorbachev Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 24 Gorbachev Quotes as follows: