Cold war Quotes

If not us, who? And if not now, when?

— Ronald Reagan

You're in there with me. Personally.

— John F. Kennedy

Hope is no basis for a defense policy.

— Margaret Thatcher

“Peace imposible, war improbable.”

— Rayman Aron

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The threat of a world war is no more.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The cold war is over; Japan won.

— Paul Tsongas

By the grace of God, we won the Cold War.

— George H. W. Bush

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

— Ronald Reagan

“China was the first front in a new cold war. And it had all been misunderstood”

— Michael Wolff

Declare the United States the winner and begin de-escalation.

— George Aiken

He was, albeit only briefly, the hero of the world's hopes.

— David Cannadine

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

— Jane Smiley

I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

— Fidel Castro

The cold war is over, but cold war thinking survives.

— Joseph Rotblat

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

— Alexander Haig

“The most costly and protracted Middle East conflict of this era, the Iran-Iraq war of 1980–8, had nothing to do with the…

— Fred Halliday

The Cold War, Bosnia and Ukraine remind us that peace is fragile. Iraq and Syria remind us that no society or culture…

— Gavin Esler

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

— Bernard Baruch

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

— Jack Kemp

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

— Stephen Ambrose

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in…

— Annie Jacobsen

The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the…

— Margot Robbie

I wore the cloth of the nation for over 31 years in peace and war, from the Vietnam and Cold War eras,…

— Joe Sestak

When Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, I felt America's post-Cold War commitment to national principles and international leadership was…

— Joe Lieberman

I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness…

— John Rhys-Davies

One of the extraordinary features of the Blair government has been its slavish support for the central tenets of Bush's foreign policy…

— Martin Jacques

TICAD is a conference Japan launched in 1993 to assist self-supporting development in Africa against the backdrop of the declining international interest…

— Fumio Kishida

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled…

— Conrad Black

We're not trying to be deliberately frustrating, but we are laying the tracks for a mystery, and it's one that we have…

— Brian K. Vaughan

To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate…

— Lynne Reid Banks

“There is probably no way of explaining Project Koschei, or XK-PLUTO, or MK-NIGHTMARE, or the gates, without watering them down into just…

— Charles Stross

We thought that the odds of things working OK were up in the upper 90 percent or we wouldn't have gone. But…

— John Glenn

“ I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die- No. Heather took a deep breath and tried to…

— Chelsea Fine

Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50…

— Boris Johnson

Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all…

— Thomas Merton

Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the…

— Simon Jenkins

“the abandoning of ideological conviction – the modern surrogate for religious belief – or us-versus-them thinking won’t be easy. The experts on…

— Pankaj Mishra

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as…

— Fareed Zakaria