Soviet Union Quotes
224 quotes by 166 authors
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I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please…
— Craig Reucassel
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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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I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people,…
— Satish Kumar
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When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.
— Alex North
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Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the…
— Lance Morrow
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National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States…
— Michael Moriarty
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What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is…
— Michael Pollan
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When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a…
— Thomas Schelling
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Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued.…
— Walter Russell Mead
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If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic…
— David Frum
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The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests…
— Kevin Myers
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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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All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the two…
— Andrew Sullivan
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Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators…
— Richard Perle
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The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while…
— Francis Fukuyama
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When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence.…
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
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According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.
— James Fallows
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It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others.…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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