I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the… — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency… — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for… — Henry Grunwald Copy Share Image
“am reading the Aldrich Ames spy Saga 1995 wherin Aldrich Ames one of the cold ward war's biggest moles in the cia… — David Wise Copy Share Image
Believe me, after the destruction of Chinese nuclear sites by our missiles, there won't be much time for the Americans to choose… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Throughout the Cold War such priorities reflected a command environment in which —it was regarded as overwhelmingly more important to assure a… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“American cold war culture represented an age of anxiety. The anxiety was so severe that it sought relief in an insistent, assertive… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
“Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies seeking purpose in an environment… — Ben Hinson Copy Share Image
They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The Cold War was over, presidential sex scandals superseded foreign concerns, and the American public was more interested in reading about fiendish… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for… — Earl Browder Copy Share Image
Kennedy was president for only 1,037 days, but during his short tenure, he achieved much. At the Cold War's most dangerous hour,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Just as certain Cold War binaries were collapsing, new binaries of Sunni versus Shia or Arab versus Kurd were being created by… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Whether history will view Ronald Reagan as a great president depends, more than anything else, on one question: how much credit does… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Since the end of the Cold War, peace, prosperity, and progress have largely been the order of the day for hundreds of… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
If the 1988 Seoul Olympics was 'reconciliation Olympics' amid the cold war between East and West and the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics was… — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Both NATO and the American alliance structure in Northeast Asia are institutions with deep roots that helped win a spectacular victory in… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
“Walking a short way back along the embankment, almost to where the cross stood, Smiley took another look at the bridge, as… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don't agree. If you… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
After the rise of Thatcherism, the smashing of the trade unions, and the post-cold war sense that any alternative to free-market capitalism… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
The blow back from the cold war is that a weakened Russia allowed Afghanistan to become a failed state, and then all… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
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