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Mikhail Gorbachev

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RUSSELL BAKER No chronology of Soviet atrocities can convey the crushing of the human spirit under Lenin and his s...
MICHAEL JOHNS The Chinese believe that [former Soviet leader Mikhail] Gorbachev made a critical, indeed fatal erro...
GLEN BARCLAY Gorbachev was literally hated in the 1990s. He was seen as the destroyer of the Soviet Union, the de...
ALEXANDER RAHR On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the f...
STEPHEN COHEN The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them....
MITT ROMNEY I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his...
DAVID REMNICK Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions ...
RUSSELL BAKER I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and des...
HOWARD FAST Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite agai...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS This is too much reality for a Friday.
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MARINE LE PEN I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed m...
NORAH JONES Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compet...
BUZZ ALDRIN I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the P...
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DR HITESH C SHETH Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important rea...
XI JINPING Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
P. J. O'ROURKE The only difference between Gorbachev and other Soviet leaders is that Gorbachev is alive
RUSH LIMBAUGH What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, no...
EDDIE ALBERT Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down ...
KATHLEEN TROIA MCFARLAND Along with Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa is responsible for the end of the Cold W...
BILL LACY By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
BARBARA AMIEL As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusat...
M. STANTON EVANS When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women...
TARYN MANNING But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after th...
DAVID KAY The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.
DAVID SOUL General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and East...
RONALD REAGAN In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn...
VAGIT ALEKPEROV The point of the play is to separate Marxism and Stalinism. How communism was written and how it was...
BRIAN JONES I experienced again in my recent conversations with Mikhail Gorbachev how much Raisa influenced her ...
HELMUT KOHL Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an as...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is commu...
JOHN MCCAIN In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over...
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JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
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JACKSON KATZ Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first'...
JENNIFER GRANT But then Mikhail told us something that stunned us even more - the reason the picture was so importa...
BOB LAY The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us ...
FIDEL CASTRO Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would proba...
NEWT GINGRICH I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn...
ROBERT SCHEER George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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FAY WRAY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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WALT MOSSBERG There is no more anti-Semitism on the state level, as we saw in Soviet times, but instead we have a ...
YITZHAK KOGAN Many greeted the truth as an enemy. And freedom as well.
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH Why didn't we put Stalin on trial? I'll tell you why...In order to condemn Stalin, you'd have to con...
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, camerame...
DANIEL SILVA The Soviet Union, which has complained recently about alleged anti-Soviet themes in American adverti...
DENNIS MILLER Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputatio...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Gorbachev's legacy is that he called time on communism, partially against his will, but in fact,...
HELMUT KOHL The room is the most important thing about recording.
ADRIAN SMITH Bin Laden had come to the delusional conclusion that the United States was as weak as the Soviet Uni...
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NANCY GIBBS He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
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WARREN BEATTY It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
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NATHAN LANE Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked ...
RAFAEL SABATINI Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
BORIS YELTSIN The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER He was just an extraordinary guy who was as passionate about his family as he was about newspapers.
KIRK DAVIS The most important thing is the inconsistency of government policies. President Chen seems to shift ...
TIM TING I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting ...
HUGH GRANT I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien sme...
BEN KATCHOR The Holy Father spoke not only to the Catholic community, but to men and women of conscience on ever...
TODD AKIN The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you durin...
MARIO ANDRETTI Winning - that's the most important to me. It's as simple as that.
CRISTIANO RONALDO Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it rest...
VLADIMIR PUTIN So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his ...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind o...
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STEVEN SPIELBERG And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who t...
NORMAN JEWISON It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
JOSH BILLINGS Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.
KURT LODER We have called a meeting for the coming days of the most important anti-terrorist services from the ...
ANGEL ACEBES I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring ...
PAT ROBERTSON Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because hi...
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ERIC STONESTREET The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collap...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card c...
JIM RENACCI 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember ...
FEDE ALVAREZ The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subver...
ROBERT ZUBRIN I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw ...
ALEX TIZON Prayer is the most important thing that I do.
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MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called ‘The Peop...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the othe...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone th...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV One can speak of sanctions only after the appearance of concrete facts proving that Iran is not enga...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN We will only be able to talk about sanctions after we have concrete facts confirming that Iran is no...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN At the present time, the concerns of the international community over the Iranian nuclear program ca...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Sanctions could only be discussed when evidence is provided that Iran is pursuing not only peaceful ...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Only the Council is authorized to make binding decisions on suspending cooperation with a state in a...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN The adoption of a commitment on ending cooperation with this or that state in some sphere lies exclu...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN The Iranian government has made no positive steps demanded in the February 4 resolution of the board...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN The arms export control system we have developed is one of the strictest and most reliable in the wo...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Russia will strictly abide by the existing agreements and contracts with Western partners in the del...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Despite the intensive three-year work, the IAEA cannot yet make a conclusion about the absence of un...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a you...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has t...
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.
MIKHAIL DUDAN Russia's position is that status issues must be discussed at the third stage of talks within the Joi...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I can see one guy doing what we call an 'air flare' ... and I'll see 30 other individuals do the sam...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am fr...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN There is no love sincerer than the love of food
GEORGE MIKHAIL Sometimes, if I need assistance on the government level, I can appeal through official channels. For...
MIKHAIL PROKHOROV I made it to protect the motherland.
MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV Milosevic's advisers handed the Russian Embassy in the Netherlands a letter to the Russian Foreign M...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Only when you get closer do you see individual sources that make up the glow.
MIKHAIL REVNIVTSEV The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure
MIKHAIL BARYSHINIKOV Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые.
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV I shall sit down,' replied the cat, sitting down, 'but I shall enter an objection with regard to you...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV