The Bush Administration, 1989–1993
The fine gentlemen of the bourgeois countries will never overthrow the rule of the workers which has been established in the socialist countries. They will never return to what has gone. It is now becoming increasingly clear that the rule of capitalism is coming to an end in other countries, too, and that capitalism is an outmoded system which is doomed to inexorable death. The future is ours.
—NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV, NOVEMBER 4, 1958
Future historians will find it hard to understand why the United States, with the world at its feet, did not seize the opportunity it had itself created to install a new world order.
—CLAUDE MONNIER, LE MATIN DIMANCHE (LAUSANNE), MAY 28, 19911