Alliances Quote by Frank Gaffney

I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily…

— Barack Obama

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 succeeded in bringing down the Iron Curtain by showing strength and resolutely standing up to the Soviet Union. President Trump needs to…

— Dan Lipinski

I think that Ronald Reagan wanted to hear other people's views, and he always listened carefully, and from time to time he changed his…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

The mythology of the Reagan presidency is that he induced the collapse of the Soviet Union by luring it into unsustainable military spending and…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia…

— David E. Hoffman

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

— Elliott Abrams

The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and…

— John F. Kerry

Ronald Reagan was able to accomplish extraordinary purposes for our country without having to put our military forces into conflict.

— Mitt Romney

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength.

— Rand Paul