Yakov Smirnoff Quotes

Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.

So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.

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

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.

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

The difference between eastern Europe and the United States is that the United States still has a Communist party.

Our friends on the left never met an anti-Communist they liked.

President Eisenhower is a communist dupe!

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

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.

I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.

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.

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

During my childhood in the Cold War, my family saw America as a great ally in our common struggle to keep back Soviet communism.

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

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

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

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

Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.