No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“Walking a short way back along the embankment, almost to where the cross stood, Smiley took another look at the bridge, as… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Both NATO and the American alliance structure in Northeast Asia are institutions with deep roots that helped win a spectacular victory in… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don't agree. If you… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
After the rise of Thatcherism, the smashing of the trade unions, and the post-cold war sense that any alternative to free-market capitalism… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold… — Richard A. Falk 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
“One of Castro’s first acts as Cuba’s Prime Minister was to go on a diplomatic tour that started on April 15, 1959.… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
The reason I called the president Donald Trump a disrupter is that he came into office 70 years after World War II,… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
“Bloom wrote, ‘there is nowhere else to seek it. I would suggest that fascism has a future, if not the future.’ The… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
People are now starting to explain the Cold War. Even in the crises at that time the survival of millions of people… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was… — Malcolm Wallop 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
“One last thump, one last groan—and one last meow. Then all was blessedly silent. Except for Clive. He continued to pine for… — Alice Clayton Copy Share Image
Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
'1984,' one of the most important works ever written, helped us understand the Cold War. In '1984,' the dictatorship was always surveilling… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“I'll be like in that movie, that one where all the people walk around recitin' the books they memorized after all the… — James W. Blinn Copy Share Image
The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
I get enough of that on the news, so I didn't want to deal with fundamentalists or any sort of thing like… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image
President George H.W. Bush was a patriot who served our country in World War II, lead the CIA, an Ambassador to the… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation;… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
Which is more important in world history: The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet Empire? A few over-exited Islamists or the… — Zbignew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“am reading the Aldrich Ames spy Saga 1995 wherin Aldrich Ames one of the cold ward war's biggest moles in the cia… — David Wise Copy Share Image
Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for… — Henry Grunwald Copy Share Image
The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency… — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
Believe me, after the destruction of Chinese nuclear sites by our missiles, there won't be much time for the Americans to choose… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the… — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image