Breakthrough Quote by Eduard Shevardnadze

Ronald Reagan set the stage for the end of the Cold War.

— Rush Limbaugh

Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down an economically weakened Soviet Union. He knew defeating…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win. This was…

— Ann Coulter

Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.

— Margaret Thatcher

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

— Newt Gingrich

Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them.

— Elliott Abrams

Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union,…

— Mary Landrieu

They said Reagan was too dangerous. It was Reagan who ended the Soviet Union without firing a shot.

— Rush Limbaugh

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Ronald Reagan reached out to Gorbachev. At the same time, we were pushing back against the Soviets all over the world. He was able…

— Daniel Fried

Whether history will view Ronald Reagan as a great president depends, more than anything else, on one question: how much credit does he deserve…

— Michael Beschloss

There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a script. And…

— Mark Shields