6 Quotes by David E. Hoffman

This is a country that can’t even make toasters,” he said. “And while they can make missiles, they can’t feed their population.

I think words were Reagan’s greatest weapon – and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

Today, we’ve got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?

The United States cannot predict Soviet behavior because it has too little information about what goes on inside the Soviet Union; the Soviets cannot predict American behavior because they have too much information.

Soviet authorities had long feared copiers. At its most basic, the machine helped spread information, and strict control of information was central to the Communist Party’s grip on power. In most offices, photocopy machines were kept under lock and key.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.