Soviets Quotes
46 quotes by 38 authors
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There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat…
— James Lileks
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I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
— Edward Teller
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
— Yakov Smirnoff
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There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.
— Herman Kahn
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Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those…
— Barbara Amiel
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They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country.
— Ronald Reagan
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What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have…
— Slavoj Žižek
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If wars create vast sums of money for the global elite, is it possible the Soviets, the Viet Cong and Muslim extremists were, or are,…
— James Morcan
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Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves…
— Marc Chagall
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My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When I was a…
— Dolph Lundgren
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In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements,…
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
— Dan Rather
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And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there.…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a…
— Ruta Sepetys
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Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them.
— Elliott Abrams
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At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates…
— Elliott Abrams
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Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose…
— Jack Keane
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During the cold war, it was easy for the Pentagon to justify its budget, as the Soviets essentially sized our forces for us. We simply…
— Thomas P.M. Barnett
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