Attributes Quote by Rush Limbaugh

In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how…

— Lubos Motl

Reagan saw the Soviet Union as evil, all right, and not only because it was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of…

— Paul Kengor

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

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

— Norman Mailer

Reagan's defense buildup and SDI, so ridiculed at the time, pressed Gorbachev, while his economy was collapsing, to make arms deals and improve relations…

— Michael Beschloss

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release…

— John Doolittle

“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

I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As…

— Connie Zweig

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

“Despite Soviet 'defeat' in 1991, the ideas associated with Communism remain shockingly reputable throughout what we still know as the Free World.”

— Diana West

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

— Mark Shields

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses…

— J. William Fulbright