Cold war Quotes

Nobody intends to put up a wall!

— Walter Ulbricht

“Freedom is not free”

— Ronald Reagan

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

— Justin Cronin

"World War III, was the Cold War".

— R. James Woolsey, Jr

By the grace of God, we won the Cold War.

— George H. W. Bush

The cold war is over; Japan won.

— Paul Tsongas

“War is hot, not cold.”

— Kenneth Eade

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

— Donald Rumsfeld

Public diplomacy was an effective Cold War weapon.

— Antony Blinken

Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.

— Li Peng

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

— Richard M. Nixon

“Behind the Iron Curtain, dinner told the truth.”

— Angelika Regossi

If there's Cold War, no 'Star Wars' in China.

— Jiang Wen

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

— Vladimir Putin

The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing

— Yuri Gagarin

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

— David Remnick

Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during…

— Barack Obama

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

— Vladimir Putin

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

— Jeff Sharlet

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms…

— Norman Mailer

Undeniably, we were on God's side in World War II and the Cold War. But were we ourselves without sin in those…

— Pat Buchanan

Ronald Reagan's era can be defined, number one in most people's minds, by the Cold War and by the end of it…

— Marco Rubio

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

— Stephen Kinzer

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do…

— Madeleine Albright

We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The cold war was over, but all the little games persisted. It was a good thing those puppets in the Middle East…

— Magnus Flyte

Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

We are not living in the same world we were immediately after the Cold War, when there seemed to be a greater…

— Uzodinma Iweala

Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming…

— Jamais Cascio

And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would…

— Stefan Heym

“For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its…

— Philip Short

Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

The silence of the Left, or the exclusive focus of the Left, on America's alleged crimes over the past half-century, the disdainful…

— Ron Rosenbaum

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

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

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

“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

These strengths, and our civilization in general, have reached an apogee with the end of the apocalyptic threats of the Cold War…

— Arthur Demarest

“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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