Ambassador Quote by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Soviet foreign ministers would come in to see the president all the time, routinely. Jimmy Carter stopped that after the invasion of Afghanistan. Ronald…

— Robert M. Gates

If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.

— Anastas Mikoyan

“Marshall made it clear that the United States required joint proposals of needs from the European countries, as part of a European Recovery Plan…

— James T. Patterson

President [Ronald] Reagan told me he would negotiate and negotiate and negotiate with the Soviets, and I believed him.

— Helmut Schmidt

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“On January 2, 1956 President Tubman’s staff informed the American Ambassador, General Richard Lee Jones, that the Soviet delegation had sent him a note…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But…

— John F. Kennedy

Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from some ultranationalists…

— Nancy Gibbs

It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times…

— W. Averell Harriman

I arranged the first meeting between Ariel Sharon and the settlers.

— Tzipi Livni

I saw the relation with Russia as necessary to the U.S., for the interests of the U.S. We worked very closely with them on…

— Michael T. Flynn