Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union…

The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons…

— Bernard Lewis

Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We ran them…

— John Mearsheimer

I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a Soviet Union…

— George H. W. Bush

I do think, from the other side, that George W. ush was somewhat of an innocent in his thinking about what Ronald Reagan did…

— Josh Brolin

In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances throughout Asia…

— Kevin Gutzman

It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who…

— George Friedman

I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As…

— Connie Zweig

After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials.…

— Susan Eisenhower

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most…

— Richard Perle

When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is…

— Thomas Schelling

We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the…

— J. William Fulbright

Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie…

— Ann Coulter

When the United States worked to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we went to enormous lengths to get as many countries…

— John Mearsheimer

Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would…

— Dean Acheson