“There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.” EuropeMythEasternEastern Europe Author:W. Averell Harriman
“Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.” GovernmentLastsPartyHalfSawsGreaterEuropeCrisisSocialismDramaticCommunistCollapseEasternCommunist PartyEastern Europe Author:Joe Slovo
“To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.” ThinkingWorldBelieveHumansPersonsWarRealityLastsLyingFallDifficultHuman BeingsHalfColdTasteIllusionEuropeErrorsSocialismAbsurdTragicCold WarEasternDistortionNunMarxistBundlesEastern EuropeHalf TruthHungariansEl SalvadorThinking Person Author:Michael Novak
“Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in the early Nineties. It's hard to close down government bodies, but it should be possible to sell them off. And a side benefit to outsourcing the Bureau of Government Agencies and the Agency of Government Bureaus is that you'd also be privatizing public-sector unions, which are the biggest and most direct assault on freedom, civic integrity, and fiscal solvency.” NeedsShouldHardBodyGovernmentAmericaSidesEconomicIntegrityBenefitsEuropeProgramDirectSellsUnionsPostsAgencyBritainSovietAssaultEasternCivicsEastern EuropePublic SectorOutsourcingPrivatizationGovernment AgenciesMrs Thatcher Author:Mark Steyn
“I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.” WantNeedsMeanStatesSpaceViewsTakenEuropeChinaRussiaGermanyBritainEasternStrategicEastern Europe Author:Paul Keating
“I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.” DoneBehindsKeysEuropeTrainNewspapersRussiaServingEasternCircusBicycleEastern EuropeBalkans Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.” GivingBelieveSchoolLeaderDoorsTaxesEuropeGreenConservativeRefuseContinuingEasternGrammarMigrationEastern EuropeReferendumsGrammar School Author:Nigel Farage