Ronald Reagan Quotes

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

… the unfortunate but inevitable connection between the word “socialism” and the unmitigated crucifixion of Civil Liberties in the East [Eastern Europe dominated by the Russian Communist Party.

Stalin is a strong, ruthless revolutionist and therefore a very potential threat to future world conditions.

The Russian Leadership Came to the conclusian that Western Expansion could only be reversed with an "iron fist".

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

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 Soviet state builds bodies—mounds of them.

Generalissimo of the Forces for the Suppression of Communism

De Gaulle has all the characteristics to be a dictator.

Stalin's methods did not help.

Joseph Stalin was a supreme egotist and sadist, capable of sacrificing everything and anyone for the sake of his own power and glory.

If ... America is to become an empire, there is very little chance that it can avoid becoming a virtual dictatorship as well.

In its mad passion for power, the Communist State even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy. It supported and encouraged all the worst antisocial qualities and systematically destroyed the already awakened conception of the new revolutionary values

President Maliki: The appetite has grown with the eating. He has become a real dictator.

Erdogon has become so paranoid, so power-hungry, he doesn't even allow institutions to flourish. It has become a one-man show.

Russia is the biggest menace in the world led by the most menacing guy in the world.

I grew up with communism, and if you live through communism you don't love it.

When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt against (then Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, and eight years after the people had torn down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the hated founder of the KGB, in Moscow - it was admittedly a shock. Nevertheless, I decided to give Putin a chance. He seemed dynamic and capable of learning. But I had to bury my hopes after just a few months. He proved to be an autocrat - and, because the West let him do as he pleased, he became a dictator.

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.

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

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.

Within the Russian system, everything depends on the character of those few who hold full power in their hands. The position of the individual within present-day Russia has been described as follows: far-reaching economic security by sacrificing personal liberty.