Beam Quote by Dan Rather

“In hindsight, Khrushchev stands out as a rare case of a nuclear optimist. His nuclear brinkmanship was exceptionally crude and aggressive, reckless and ideology-driven.…

— Vladislav M. Zubok

Both the President and Mr Gorbachev have said that they want to see a world without nuclear weapons. I cannot see a world without…

— Margaret Thatcher

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has…

— John F. Kennedy

“...there is something Russian about this particular use of the eye as an aggressive and defensive weapon. In Russian literature there is endless variation…

— Erik H. Erikson

Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become…

— Deepak Chopra

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

— David Remnick

I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

— Margaret Thatcher

“Khrushchev, too, looks like the kind of man his physicians must continually try to diet, and historians will some day correlate these sporadic deprivations,…

— A.J. Liebling

Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses…

— Ben Shapiro

The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn't got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.

— Bob Hope

The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great…

— Jesse Ventura

Chernobyl' is supposedly about the lies, arrogance, and suppression of criticism under Communism, but the mini-series portrays life in the Soviet Union in the…

— Michael Shellenberger