Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.
– W. Averell Harriman
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
– W. Averell Harriman
He's a margarine Communist.
– W. Averell Harriman
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.
– W. Averell Harriman
The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
– W. Averell Harriman
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.