John paul Quote by Roger Scruton

“John O’Sullivan has forcefully argued that the simultaneous presence in the highest offices of Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II was the cause…

— Roger Scruton

“And when the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991, Dick wanted to see the dismantlement not only of the Soviet Union and the…

— Robert M. Gates

“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

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

— Norman Mailer

Take the [1980] Jimmy Carter-Ronald Reagan debate. Carter kept trying to imply that somehow Ronald Reagan was going to push the button, or was…

— Roger Ailes

When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is…

— Thomas Schelling

Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

— Vladimir Putin

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

— Vladimir Putin

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing…

— Earl Browder

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

— Christopher Hitchens

“He who does not regret the breakup of the Soviet Union has no heart. He who wants to revive it in its previous form…

— Michael Rank