Agriculture Quote by Leonid Brezhnev

When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.

— Leonid Brezhnev

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

Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.

— Helmut Schmidt

[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to…

— Ross Perot

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like…

— Jimmy Carter

In retrospect, I can see that President Brezhnev was quite proud of the limited agreement that he had concluded in Vladivostok; and to have…

— Jimmy Carter

I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.

— Dan Rather

I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the…

— Tariq Ali

I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Word spread about us in what was then the Soviet Union and we received an invite from President Brezhnev to perform there, which no…

— Liz Mitchell

The citizen lives in each of us. In the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, I was constantly trying to suppress the responsible…

— Vladimir Sorokin

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

— Jack Kemp

It’s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after I’m dead and gone in one generation will…

— Lee Kuan Yew

One of the surprising things that Brezhnev said when we were in our talks, was - when I proposed that we make these changes…

— Jimmy Carter

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine…

— Carlos Fuentes