Quote of the Decade (1980s, that is)

Reminds Mother Jones magazine: "We must expect the Soviet system to survive in its present brutish form for a very long time. There will be Soviet labor camps and Soviet torture chambers well into our great grandchildren's lives: great centers of political and economic power have enormous staying power; Czarist Russia lasted through 3 1/2 years of the most agonizing kind of war; the Nazi state did not collapse even when battlefield defeats reduced its control to only a tiny sliver of Germany. We must therefore assume the Soviet Union will survive as a dangerous totalitarian state." --Newt Gingrich, in his book, "Window of Opportunity" (1984)


The U.S.S.R. collapsed seven years later.