Soviet Union Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the… — Joseph Rotblat
The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's experience,… — Mao Zedong
I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life. — Anna Kournikova
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites… — Eugene Jarecki
I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink… — Ben Katchor
We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and China, that their… — John Abizaid
Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union. — Vladimir Putin
When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign… — Vladimir Putin
NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union,… — Vladimir Putin
Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a… — Mikhail Gorbachev
There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to… — Jan Koum
When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance… — Jan Koum
In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did. — P.J. O'Rourke
Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus?… — P.J. O'Rourke

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