In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people. — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all… — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its… — Philip Short Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The cold war was over, but all the little games persisted. It was a good thing those puppets in the Middle East… — Magnus Flyte Copy Share Image
“During the Cold War of the 1950s, American spies were issued eyeglasses with thick, clunky frames. If captured, they were trained to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan - I was 12 when he was murdered -… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
“During the Cold War, widespread alcoholism was always seen in the West as evidence that life under Communism was so dismal that… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
For over two centuries, each generation of Americans before us confronted and solved problems. They embraced opportunities and Americans have never had… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“All these developments reflect new strategic opportunities. Unlike the days of the Cold War which was marked by rigid power relationships, the… — SBYudhoyono Copy Share Image
“This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. As a civilian I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
During my childhood in the Cold War, my family saw America as a great ally in our common struggle to keep back… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I am more than ever convinced that communism is on the march on a worldwide scale which only America can stop. — Arthur H. Vandenberg Copy Share Image
Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
The safest period of my lifetime was the Cold War, when Europe was more sharply divided than ever. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle… — Christo Copy Share Image
I wore the cloth of the nation for over 31 years in peace and war, from the Vietnam and Cold War eras,… — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
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