Administration Quote by Gerald R. Ford

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet…

— Samuel P. Huntington

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

— Barbara Amiel

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

— Ken Follett

The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter…

— Boris Yeltsin

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

— Dan Rather

As for the eastern part of the former Soviet Union, the picture is rather uniform. Authoritarian structures prevail to differing extents. But we can…

— Garry Kasparov

Vladimir Putin is doubtlessly trying to drive a wedge into the Western alliance. When it comes to the Russian minorities in the Baltics, Putin…

— Heinrich August Winkler

Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated to the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run…

— Barbara Amiel

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all…

— Barbara Amiel

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a…

— Vladimir Putin

“If Budapest, Bratislava, Prague, Cracow, Warsaw, and Berlin belong to Europe, then why not Leningrad, why not Moscow--indeed, why stop before Vladivostok? It is…

— George Konrád