The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was 'better' than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty.… — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life.… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
“Before terminating at the Berlin Wall, the front in the Cold War ran through the hellish jungles of Vietnam to the oases… — Michael B. Oren Copy Share Image
If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into… — Susan Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic,… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law. The very facts were shrouded in… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Despite the support of all these kings and generals, militarily the Warsaw Pact had a huge numerical superiority over NATO. In order… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date.… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
For two generations up through the mid-1980s, many thought we were losing the Cold War, even in early 1989, few believed that… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
After the Cold War, a nuclear-free world appeared to be within reach. However, the lack of a collective sense of ownership allowed… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
Ever since the end of the Cold War, it has been our paramount interest in Europe to strengthen NATO and to extend… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Russia and China have become two great allies. They'd never be divided as they were during the Cold War Days. Russia and… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I am an armor officer. I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia… — Sam Nunn Copy Share Image
The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
Future U.S. political leaders, those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me, may not… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image
Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
If someone is undertaking aggressive military activities in Ukraine and Syria, if someone is bolstering his military presence near his neighbors... then… — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy… — Giulio Andreotti Copy Share Image
To the Cold War veterans here, know that your steadfast efforts preserved a delicate balance, and, because of you, the global war… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
We shouldn't overdramatize the current disagreements with the Russians. They are real, but they're not really all that threatening. And the notion… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The 'Bachelor' producers have scripted and are responsible for certain events: the first moon landing, the end of the cold war, Astro-turf,… — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
China's growing military strength presents us with a peer adversary for the first time since the Cold War that can threaten our… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
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