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

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it’s not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

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.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I’d read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

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

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

We’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.

Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

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

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated – preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

In one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.