Quotes of Soviet - somelinesforyou

“ The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can. ”

- Christopher Fry

“ Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage. ”

- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

“ The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy? Where is your decency? Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle? ”

- Golda Meir

“ Praising the Sandinistas while criticizing the Soviets is like loving kittens and deploring cats. Actually it's not such a nice kitty. ”

- John McCarthy

“ In orbit now we have a small but harmonious collection of Soviet people. ”

- Vladimir M. Komarov

“ If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. ”

- Newt Gingrich

“ Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union. ”

- Joseph Stalin

“ This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades. ”

- Richard Eder

“ Which is more important in world history: The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet Empire? A few over-exited Islamists or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War? ”

- Zbignew Brzezinski

“ The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. ”

- Mikhail Gorbachev

“ Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance. ”

- Joseph Stalin

“ The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents. ”

- Andrew Young

“ On the 12th of April, 1961, the Soviet spaceship-sputnik was put in orbit around the Earth with me on board… there was a good view of the Earth, which had a very distinct and pretty blue halo. It had a smooth transition from pale blue, blue, dark blue, violet and absolutely black… ”

- Yuri A. Gagarin

“ What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis. ”

- W. Edwards Deming

“ I want to stress to you that all this needs to be done in a disciplined way, and that when people will be asking about me and writing about me, that all this be done in a responsible way. But if you write that I have said something against the Soviet government and said that it is better to work elsewhere, then I shall have difficulties back home. ”

- Leon Theremin

“ The Leesburg Garden Club is a nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves. ”

- Lyndon LaRouche

“ Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War. ”

- Mary Landrieu

“ Foreigners in Moscow claim that, according to a Soviet statistic, there are only three brassieres for every five Russian women. In view of current Western women's fashion trends, they may be abreast of the times. ”

- B. Michael Frolic
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