Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash CMG FRSA (born 12 July 1955) is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University.

• In Poland it [the fall of Communism] took ten years, in Hungary ten months, in East Germany ten weeks: perhaps in Czechoslovakia it will take ten days!
  • Garton Ash to Václav Havel, November 23 1989 in Prague. Timothy Garton Ash (January 18, 1990). The Revolution of the Magic Lantern. The New York Review. Retrieved on 2 November 2024.

• Putin must be stopped. And sometimes only guns can stop guns.
  • Timothy Garton Ash (1 February 2015). Putin must be stopped. And sometimes only guns can stop guns. The Guardian. Retrieved on 1 February 2015.