The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred currency is… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase. — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation. — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
“I am not arguing that the Soviet Union did not present a threat to the security of the United States. I am… — James McCartney Copy Share Image
The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“The British consul in Mashed later wrote in his memoirs that what had turned “Russia from hot-war ally to cold-war rival” was… — Ervand Abrahamian Copy Share Image
I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look… — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
I lived through the Cold War as a child, and we always thought a nuclear bomb could end life everywhere at any… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
“Psychology’s service to U.S. national security has produced a variant of what the psychiatrist Robert Lifton has called, in his study of… — Alfred W. McCoy Copy Share Image
George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“In combination, these political and economic forces suggest that globalization, at least of the post-Columbus kind, is simply not inevitable. In this… — Stephen D. King Copy Share Image
“Yet every democratic government is reluctant to face the fact. Reservists and citizen-soldiers stand ready, in every free nation, to stand to… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“If you read British Foreign Office records from the 1940s, it’s clear they recognised that their day in the sun was over… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Recently, I watched an episode of The Big Bang Theory. One of the characters, Howard—an astrophysicist—is in space. His new bride, Bernadette,… — Veena Venugopal Copy Share Image
“Several premises shaped the Marshall Plan: that the gravest threat to western interests in Europe was not the prospect of Soviet military… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan's era can be defined, number one in most people's minds, by the Cold War and by the end of it… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly. — Gerhard Schroder Copy Share Image
Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe. — Konstantin Chernenko Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness. — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
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