Leadership Quote by Chris Matthews

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

— Noam Chomsky

I don't think anybody can with a straight face say that the Russians did not set out to influence our election, and they did…

— Stephen Colbert

“the 1962 Novocherkassk massacre in which Soviet troops with machine guns mowed down a group of factory protesters—”

— Donnie Eichar

“Soviet leaders had to treat the outside world as hostile because this provided the only excuse “for the dictatorship without which they did not…

— John Lewis Gaddis

I think you know what's new about this the Democrat Party not liking the Russians. That's a first. The Democrat Party not liking the…

— Rush Limbaugh

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made,…

— Malcolm Wallop

“I am not arguing that the Soviet Union did not present a threat to the security of the United States. I am arguing that…

— James McCartney

If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our…

— Rudy Giuliani

“fact, there was no such thing at that time—or later—as a "missile gap," a phrase that Democrats and others flung at the GOP during…

— James T. Patterson

“The USSR model was never a serious threat to anyone's bottom line. People blow up over Germany because, for all its left-wing bent, it…

— Thomas Geoghegan

Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We ran them…

— John Mearsheimer

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski