Soviet Quotes
436 quotes by 289 authors
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Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie actor…
— Ann Coulter
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This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we…
— Lee Child
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Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until…
— George F. Kennan
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I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.
— Osip Mandelstam
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Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents,…
— Mark Millar
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He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union .…
— Anthony Horowitz
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Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist…
— George Orwell
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But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans, and…
— Paullina Simons
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In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but none came; we…
— Edward Said
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The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen.…
— Margaret Thatcher
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In Germany, under the law everything is prohibited except that which is permitted. In France, under the law everything is permitted except that which is…
— Newton N. Minow
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Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used…
— Lawrence Eagleburger
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There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we…
— Russ Feingold
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A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.
— Unknown Author
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Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.
— Jack Anderson
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As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both…
— Jerry Brown
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We operate here under directives which emanate from the White House... The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use…
— Horace Rowan Gaither
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The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and…
— William J. Clinton
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