Miriam Shor Quotes

I was 14 when the wall came down, so I only ever knew about the GDR or experienced it as a kid. I lived very far away from it, and you only ever thought about the GDR when you saw the Olympics, because you were like, "How are they always winning?!"

I have a whole box full of pieces of the Berlin Wall and a heart made from the barbed wire of the Iron Curtain. It's - they're cherished treasures to me now, of course.

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

I was in Germany when the wall came down.

If the purpose of the wall was to destroy Berlin, Herr Ulbricht and his cohorts have erred sadly. Berlin is not only going to continue to exist - it's going to grow and grow and grow. Its ties to West Germany will not be severed.

Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The notion of presenting history as a story also appealed to me very much, since that is the way I look at the events I cover as a reporter.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

The Cold War is Over

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration.

Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other side of the line, the Soviet forces also face east to prevent their people from leaving.

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.

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 Berlin Wall fell because the East Germans saw the West had more. The Koreans don't like the Japanese and try to prove to them that they are worth more in the industrial arena.

I was born in 1988, one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and people of my generation were taught that utopian dreams are dangerous.

If Adenauer were here with us in the sauna, we could see for ourselves that Germany is and will remain divided but also that Germany never will rise again.

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.