“The world became a better place to live in after 11/9 [1989 - fall of Berlin wall] because each outbreak of freedom stimulated another outbreak.”
Contributed by: Maya Elhalal
Thomas Friedman
“I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.”
James Brown
“The guy who started the museum in Berlin is a huge RAMONES fan, ... His name is Florian . In fact, every time I would come there, he would be at the shows, and he must have attended every show we played in Germany.”
Marky Ramone
“It's possible to take the city, of course. Even Berlin was taken. But we spent tens of thousands of people's lives, tens of thousands of citizens and soldiers. Do we need that?”
Alexander Lebed
“We also hung out at what was then Conley Rayne's (now Rayne's Reef) in Berlin, and there was roller skating parties and sock hop dances at church hall, too, ... By today's standards, our kids and grandkids might think we had a boring time, but it was wonderful.”
Hudson Brown
“when we supported Solidarity, we were criticized by the Europeans for being naïve. Yet in 1989, when the Berlin Wall was about to collapse, there were very few American officials who believed that history was about to turn.”
Daniel Fried
