Coups Quote by Nicholas Meyer

It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who…

— George Friedman

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

— Ken Follett

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee…

— Eskinder Nega

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

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the…

— Gianni Agnelli

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

— Ann Richards

History reminds us, however, that good doesn't always prevail. Not against Russia anyway.

— Katty Kay

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going…

— Andrzej Wajda

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something…

— Christopher Hitchens

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of…

— Anonymous

I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.

— Marshall McLuhan