Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Stalin showed his intolerance, his brutality, and his abuse of power. He often chose the path of repression and physical annihilation, not only against actual enemies, but also against individuals who had not committed any crimes against the Party or the Soviet state.

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

Berlin is the testicles of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

We choose freedom.

-- Konrad Adenauer

I am a Berliner.

-- John F. Kennedy

It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

-- Harry S. Truman

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

-- Vladimir Lenin

Nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.

-- Mikhail Gorbachev

The march of freedom and democracy will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history.

-- Ronald Reagan