Berlin wall Quote by Dorothy Bush Koch

Personal relations were critical to the success of dad's diplomacy all across the world during his presidency.

— Neil Bush

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

— David Remnick

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

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

— Frank Zappa

I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field of media…

— Stefan Heym

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany…

— Gustav Stresemann

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in…

— David Hoffman

“When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, my parents, like the rest of America, were terrified. The Soviets had nuclear weapons and now…

— Al Franken

My parents were attached to Russian culture by a thousand ineradicable ties. But they did not cut me off from American society, nor could…

— Keith Gessen

Mikhail Gorbachev's historic leadership, which transformed Russia and international relations, cannot be fully understood without the diary-memoir of Anatoly Chernyaev, one of his most…

— Stephen F. Cohen

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Reagan's defense buildup and SDI, so ridiculed at the time, pressed Gorbachev, while his economy was collapsing, to make arms deals and improve relations…

— Michael Beschloss