Foreign policy Quote by Mark Shields

The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan…

— David Frum

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm…

— George F. Kennan

American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead,…

— Colin S. Gray

In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union…

— Henry A. Kissinger

It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party.

— J. Stalin

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down.

— Olga Tokarczuk

Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We ran them…

— John Mearsheimer

If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our…

— Rudy Giuliani

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for…

— Anonymous

NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet…

— Vladimir Putin

At the end of the Cold War, the prevailing view in Washington was that the U.S. was strong, and Russia was weak and did…

— Bill Bradley