“But Max said: “Last summer I spent working these peace booths at state fairs. We’d go around in this bigole pickup with… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“In an extraordinary 2012 essay in Guernica, Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie remembers the moment she noticed that no American novelists of the… — The Baffler Copy Share Image
“Authoritarian Communism is, and should be, forever tainted by those real-world laboratories. But what of the contemporary crusade to liberate world markets?… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives.… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The American embassy in Moscow is situated at No. 8 Bolshoy Deviatinsky Pereulok in a towering glass and stone edifice that took… — Matt Fulton Copy Share Image
“The answer was Stellar Wind. The NSA would eavesdrop freely against Americans and aliens in the United States without probable cause or… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“When Communism fell in 1989, the temptation for Western commentators to gloat triumphantly proved irresistible. This, it was declared, marked the end… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Jung recognized that society advances only slowly, through the gradual integration of new insights gleaned through the often unrecorded work of individuals,… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
I think Russia is dangerous, not a superpower. I know what the president is trying to say. I worked for him for… — Michael McFaul Copy Share Image
There is a pervasive mistrust that grew out of the Cold War and still continues today - even though there are a… — Sam Nunn Copy Share Image
“That image of a chessboard — an epic contest between two giant players, carefully nudging their pieces around the globe as part… — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
“In a world of terrorists, terrorist states and weapons of mass destruction, the option of preemption is especially necessary. In the bipolar… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Nuclear deterrence will remain a vital aspect of security. or Nuclear deterrence will have a smaller role in future security. Sources are… — Sam J. Tangredi Copy Share Image
“Truman’s farewell address on January 15, 1953, delivered five days before he left the renovated White House, is to this day one… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
“The CIA found in Laos a country where it already had amassed influence, in the heart of a Cold War battlefield, and… — Joshua Kurlantzick Copy Share Image
“In 1953, Allen Dulles, then director of the USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), named Dr Sidney Gottlieb to direct the CIA's MKULTRA… — Orit Badouk Epstein Copy Share Image
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“History's long rhythm of challenges and response, of solutions that breed new crises, is not to be interrupted. But the Cold War… — Martin Walker Copy Share Image
New Zealand's nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is… — David Lange Copy Share Image
The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I think during the Cold War in America at least, there was a division; there was the Soviet government and there were… — Joe Weisberg Copy Share Image
After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Bloom wrote, ‘there is nowhere else to seek it. I would suggest that fascism has a future, if not the future.’ The… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
People are now starting to explain the Cold War. Even in the crises at that time the survival of millions of people… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society… — William Greider Copy Share Image
In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances… — Kevin Gutzman Copy Share Image
“The strategic level is concerned with the use of military force to achieve national objectives. In the new American style of war,… — Robert Scales Copy Share Image
I do think, from the other side, that George W. ush was somewhat of an innocent in his thinking about what Ronald… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east.… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Byrnes... was concerned about Russia's postwar behavior. Russian troops had moved into Hungary and Rumania, and Byrnes thought it would be very… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
“The west, and especially the United States, has shown no serious or sustained interest in the Middle East until the last half… — Graham E. Fuller Copy Share Image
“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
These strengths, and our civilization in general, have reached an apogee with the end of the apocalyptic threats of the Cold War… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“President Nixon and Kissinger were joined for the promotion ceremony by CIA director Richard Helms and Defense Secretary Laird; all the men… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked about independent cinema, I think of what Fidel Castro said during the Cold War about the league of non-aligned… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image