Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.