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Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment—which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale—might perhaps be a proper task in the United States. At the same level of integrity, disciplined Soviet intellectuals are horrified over real or alleged American crimes, but perceive their own only as benevolent intent gone awry, or errors of an earlier day, now overcome; the comparison is inexact and unfair, since Soviet intellectuals can plead fear as an excuse for their services to state violence.


Noam Chomsky


#consensus #fear #hypocrisy #intellectuals #international-law

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.


Ben Affleck


#attempt #enough #failed #first #first thing

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.


Aldrich Ames


#already #country #disagreement #elected #felt

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.


Mort Sahl


#lie #nixon #reagan #tell #truth

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.


Walter Annenberg


#her #i #little #nancy #nancy reagan

At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus assuring a successful launch and a highly successful first year.


Richard V. Allen


#assured #assuring #competent #elements #first

The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.


Richard V. Allen


#areas #bridges #build #campaign #conducted

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.


Russell Baker


#act #actor #after #dear #enjoyed

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.


Russell Baker


#critics #even #expecting #friends #important

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.


Russell Baker


#astonished #cold #cold war #communist #culture