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I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

While the behavior of the Russian government, Putin and Putin punks are abhorrent, nothing will be changed by boycotting the Sochi Winter Games. In…

— David Mixner

There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda purposes.

— Jim Courier

In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans…

— Helmut Schmidt

With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against…

— Harvey Fierstein

Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982…

— P. J. O'Rourke

One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual, it somehow…

— Gabe Polsky

I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very politically orientated…

— John Carlos

My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire…

— Daniel Fried

In the 80s, we were still living in a kind of Cold War environment.

— Stephen Mallinder

“The most costly and protracted Middle East conflict of this era, the Iran-Iraq war of 1980–8, had nothing to do with the Cold War,…

— Fred Halliday

The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary…

— Anthony Lane