He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and… — Svetlana Alliluyeva 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
During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The lessons Noam Chomsky sets out to teach us in 'Toward a New Cold War' are invaluable. The United States, like any… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
In my seven years as Secretary, we came within a hair's breadth of war with the Soviet Union on three different occasions!… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop.… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Every generation faces a challenge. In the 1930s, it was the creation of Social Security. In the 1960s, it was putting a… — Eileen Claussen Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I think George H. W. Bush, who I had lots of disagreements with, remarkably managed the end of the Cold War in… — Ivo Daalder 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
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
It's expensive to keep communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't… — Nicolae Ceausescu Copy Share Image
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals… — George Packer Copy Share Image
...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“We were trying, as I irrelevantly analyzed it, to avoid what might be termed a historic mistake. We were trying to understand,… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
“everything for miles in all directions. The Space Needle. The aquarium and the science center. Amazon.com’s headquarters. Safeco Field. And every Starbucks… — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
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