“When I first went to Rwanda, I was reading a book called Civil War, which had been receiving great critical acclaim. Writing… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Westbrook Pegler suggested that in the period, I think the late 40s, when the investigations of Communism were opening up during the… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under… — Jimmy Carter 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
Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
I lived through the Cold War as a child, and we always thought a nuclear bomb could end life everywhere at any… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure. — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
My goal was to show the history of the end of the Cold War through both sides - the U.S. side and… — David E. Hoffman Copy Share Image
We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long,… — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
I think we should be organized in something called an Alliance Against Nuclear Terrorism. In the same way that NATO was the… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Just as certain Cold War binaries were collapsing, new binaries of Sunni versus Shia or Arab versus Kurd were being created by… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“The Soviets were worried that the Americans would attack their "sparkling new Mir space station, ... in a space shuttle, throw out… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“These two systems still risk doomsday: both are still on hair-trigger alert that makes their joint existence unstable. They are susceptible to… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
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 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 Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“I wish somebody would have told my grandpa about the Cold War, so he could have at least put on a jacket.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image