"Cuba is decaying at a scandalous pace, physically and morally. The social capital of civil values and mutual trust has evaporated and hatred is taking hold"

‘Fascism has been defeated in the West. The time has come to treat its evil twin, communism, the same way’

‘We, the victors of the Cold War, the liberators of the evil empire, could never have accomplished our bloodless triumph without a good measure of idealism’

It was a rare privilege to have a footnote in history at the fall of the Berlin Wall, which led to the collapse of communism