Agreement Quote by David Hoffman

I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down.

— Olga Tokarczuk

I think Nixon says a lot about those times. It was possibly hard, in the '90s and early 2000s to understand the grip of…

— Harry Shearer

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon…

— Bob Woodward

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

— Bob Woodward

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

— Daniel Ellsberg

“Nixon “didn’t give a damn” about the finer points of domestic policy, said aide Tom Huston. “All he wanted to do was to keep…

— John A. Farrell

Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he…

— Harry Shearer

“By this time the Vietnam War was such a confusing issue to most Americans that Nixon could take as many positions as he liked…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“President Nixon and Kissinger were joined for the promotion ceremony by CIA director Richard Helms and Defense Secretary Laird; all the men were in…

— Garrett M. Graff

I wouldn't even go into the history of the last days of the Soviet Union, the withdrawal from Europe, and what promises were given…

— Sergei Lavrov