Soviet Quotes

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From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill… — Pete du Pont
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd… — Aldrich Ames
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. — Hannes Alfven
...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which… — Anatoliy Golitsyn
A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would… — Charley Reese
...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real… — Mikhail Gorbachev
History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union. — Henry L. Stimson
I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like… — Alexander Lukashenko
The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a… — Leon Trotsky
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an… — Mikhail Gorbachev
In America, you break law. In Soviet Russia, law breaks you! In America, you watch Big Brother. In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watch you! — Yakov Smirnoff
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the… — Milton Friedman
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the… — Noam Chomsky
We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which… — Ronald Reagan
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order… — Ronald Reagan
Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United… — Ronald Reagan
But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In… — Ronald Reagan

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