Cold war Quotes · Page 7

I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the…

— Jeremy Corbyn

There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis…

— Simon Beaufoy

And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be…

— Robert M. Gates

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Bernie Sanders has shown that socialism is no longer the barrier that it used to be during the Cold War.

— Kshama Sawant

But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of…

— George H. W. Bush

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists…

— Fidel Castro

The Cold War is over. And our focus has got to be on intelligence, increased manpower, fighting internationally targets.

— Bernie Sanders

Who knows better than you what it means to have a commander-in-chief who lived his entire life, who lived throughout the entire…

— Bret Stephens

You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people... I am confident that this beginning of…

— Zhou Enlai

We desperately need in this country a discussion of American policy toward Russia. We can't keep saying an untruth, that this new…

— Stephen F. Cohen

As we learned during the Cold War, the presence of massive nuclear arsenals does not stop great powers from worrying about conventional…

— John Mearsheimer

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no…

— Martin Jacques

President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom,…

— Colin Powell

In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious…

— Ian Mcewan

I came up during the cold war, and during the cold war it was always possible with the then Soviet Union -…

— Ashton Carter

“Within a few short, dramatic months Afghanistan had been catapulted into the centre of the intensified Cold War between the Soviet Union…

— Ahmed Rashid

My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I…

— David Horowitz

If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop…

— David Hare

“These two systems still risk doomsday: both are still on hair-trigger alert that makes their joint existence unstable. They are susceptible to…

— Daniel Ellsberg

“Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death,…

— Carl Sagan

The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists,…

— David Frum

“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not…

— Christopher Hitchens

To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in…

— Michael Novak

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his…

— Ronald Reagan

Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and…

— Eduardo Paes

Despite the establishment of a peaceful post-Cold War order, proliferation continued. Nuclear risks became more diverse.

— Fumio Kishida

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh…

— Barbara Olson

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking…

— Earl Browder

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

— Ronald Reagan

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

— Dean Acheson

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

— Robert Dallek

The Cold War practice of garrisoning large numbers of troops with their families on massive bases in places like Germany is now,…

— Robert C. O'Brien

“Cold War. China, though technically an ally of the Soviet Union, was in quest of maneuvering”

— Henry Kissinger

Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify…

— Jill Stein

“Why did I decide to write cyber thrillers? Because we've gone from the Cold War to the Code War.”

— Thomas Waite

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to to turn out.

— Vyacheslav Molotov

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

— Harry S. Truman

We are plunging headlong into a cold war, and we have 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.

— Jill Stein

There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason.

— Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden