Cold war Quotes · Page 3

Ronald Reagan set the stage for the end of the Cold War.

— Rush Limbaugh

By the time I got to college, the Cold War was basically over.

— Elif Batuman

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

— Nikita Khrushchev

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

— Mike Jackson

“Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.”

— Tom Greer

“History was censored. The kitchen remembered.”

— Angelika Regossi

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

— Harry S. Truman

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

— Gerhard Schroder

Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.

— Konstantin Chernenko

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in…

— A. J. Liebling

Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.

— Bill Hicks

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

— John le Carre

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

“We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of…

— John F. Kennedy

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine…

— Fidel Castro

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

As the Cold War came to a close, Soviet leaders preferred that U.S. forces remain in Europe and NATO stay intact, an…

— John Mearsheimer

Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to…

— Mona Charen

By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual…

— Ronald Reagan

The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their…

— Hans Blix

It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between…

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer…

— Harry S. Truman

For 46 years, we were engaged in a worldwide battle against communism". "During that time, there were countless heroes, who served in…

— Mary Landrieu

I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December…

— Barry Goldwater

One of Donald Trump's criticisms of President Barack Obama and of Hillary Clinton was that they seemed reluctant to use the words…

— Tom Gjelten

Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win.…

— Ann Coulter

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

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

Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Corporate interests raised a nearly unified voice heralding automation as a certain and universal beneficial advancement. However, some observers saw the new…

— Stephen M. Ward

Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.

— Ronald Reagan

As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.

— Vladimir Lenin

Nothing says January like a brand new Cold War.

— Gossip Girl

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

— Russell Banks

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

— Ronald Reagan

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.

— Ben Dreyfuss

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

— John F. Kennedy