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• I could accept this openness, glasnost, perestroika, or whatever you want to call it if they did these thing
  abolish the one party system; open the Soviet frontier and allow Soviet people to travel freely...
• I have a friend who just got back from the Soviet Union, and told me the people there are hungry for information about the West.
  He was asked about many things, but I will give you two examples that are very revealing about life in the Soviet Union....
• DE: The Soviets seem to have difficulty implementing modern technology.
  Would you comment on that? Belenko: Well, let's talk about aircraft engine lifetime....
• There is something you must understand about the Soviet system.
  They have the ability to concentrate all their efforts on a given design, and develop all components simultaneously, but sometimes without proper testing....
• he Soviets have the capability to try big projects.
  If there is a goal, such as when Gorbachev states that they are going to have nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the case is closed -- that is it....
• Jasper: Why bother voting? He's guilty. Flanders: Well, we might as well make it official.
  Homer: What does "sequestered" mean? Skinner: If the jury is deadlocked they're put up in a hotel together so they can't communicate with the outside world....
• Joey: All right. [gets up] Monica: [stopping him] No!
  Joey, we swore we'd never tell! Chandler: [running over and joining Monica] They'll never understand!...
• Lisa: They don't like being broken up. Marge: We've got to be realistic, kids.
  Who's going to have a big enough heart to take care of 25 puppies?...
• Still a few bugs in the system... Someday I have to tell you about Uncle Nahum from Maine, who spent years trying to cross a jellyfish with a shad so he could breed boneless shad.
  His experiment backfired too, and he wound up with bony jellyfish....