Economy Quote by Michael Beschloss

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

— Norman Mailer

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

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 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

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

— Elliott Abrams

The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen…

— Margaret Thatcher

Ronald Reagan reached out to Gorbachev. At the same time, we were pushing back against the Soviets all over the world. He was able…

— Daniel Fried

Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great,…

— H. W. Brands

When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating…

— Valerie Plame

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

Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with…

— David Hoffman

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

— David Remnick