Ability to change Quote by John Steinbeck

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

“I am not arguing that the Soviet Union did not present a threat to the security of the United States. I am arguing that…

— James McCartney

The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our ranks. But…

— Lavrentiy Beria

“Lack of respect for the incompetent central government, along with language, religious, and cultural differences, will loom more and more significantly as time goes…

— Robert Goddard

And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union…

— John F. Kennedy

I've expressed concern about the assaults on our institutions, both from external sources - meaning the Russians - and internal sources. And I think…

— James R. Clapper

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses…

— J. William Fulbright

[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been…

— Steven Knight

“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting…

— Paul Johnson

“Don’t call these the “wonders of Soviet heroism" when you write about it. Those wonders really did exist. But first there had to be…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“Khrushchev told Norman Cousins, a few months after the crisis, his reaction at the time: When I asked the military advisors if they could…

— Daniel Ellsberg

Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged,…

— George F. Kennan