Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“I argue that the United States will remain the world’s sole superpower for many decades, and probably throughout this century. We are… — Michael Beckley Copy Share Image
The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the… — Wu Bangguo Copy Share Image
Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that… — Thomas Gold Copy Share Image
I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“There was, apparently, a nuclear reactor at a place called Indian Point, just thirty miles away in Westchester County. If something bad… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“And so this is where the post Cold War has brought us: to the recognition that the very totalitarism that we fought… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns.… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“The First World War; the Russian revolution of 1917; Hitler's revolution of 1933; the second World War; the further development of revolutionary… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“From the Crusades to the Holocaust to the Cold War to the current “clash of civilizations,” the demonization of “the other” has… — Arsalan Iftikhar Copy Share Image
You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons.… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
During bomb drills, we students were told to crouch under our desks. Apparently the desks used in classrooms in the fifties were… — Dave Barry 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
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
The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As we learned during the Cold War, the presence of massive nuclear arsenals does not stop great powers from worrying about conventional… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people... I am confident that this beginning of… — Zhou Enlai Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
While President Obama raised the hopes of Americans and Cubans alike with a forward-looking opening in diplomatic, commercial and people-to-people ties, President… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
I came up during the cold war, and during the cold war it was always possible with the then Soviet Union -… — Ashton Carter Copy Share Image
In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
We don't talk about that at all as a country. I think that most people assume that there's nothing they could do… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin.… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
I don't know who wants war in America, but I was very happy when Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War by reaching… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
The Cold War has ended. It's very simple. We are no longer living in a bipolar world. The chances that we will… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
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