Iron Curtain Quotes

In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

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

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

The United States had an inordinate fear of Communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear.

In Soviet Russia, party always finds you!

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power.

For hundreds of millions of people, the fall of the Berlin Wall was a great triumph: The moment marked the end of hated dictatorships and the beginning of a better era. But for the KGB officers stationed in Dresden, the political revolutions of 1989 marked the end of their empire and the beginning of an era of humiliation.

The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

We are witnessing the collapse of Bolshevism.

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace — not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

Russia is an Evil Empire.

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

Our fear of communism led us to embrace any dictator that joined us in that fear.

President Eisenhower is a communist dupe!

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the early 20th century. Then Russia had something that no other country has had, which is the longest totalitarian experiment in history.

The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man, always a KGB man.