The silence of the Left, or the exclusive focus of the Left, on America's alleged crimes over the past half-century, the disdainful… — Ron Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
“President Nixon and Kissinger were joined for the promotion ceremony by CIA director Richard Helms and Defense Secretary Laird; all the men… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
These strengths, and our civilization in general, have reached an apogee with the end of the apocalyptic threats of the Cold War… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
“The west, and especially the United States, has shown no serious or sustained interest in the Middle East until the last half… — Graham E. Fuller Copy Share Image
“This catastrophe brings to mind the Korean Air Lines plane shot down in 1983 by a Soviet military fighter, killing 269. President… — Anonymous 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
In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“General Loucks’s secret Saturday roundtable at his house in Heidelberg with the Nazi chemists remained hidden from the public for six decades.… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme:… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“The Great Transformation (1944) that ‘the utopian experiment of a self-regulating market will be no more than a memory’. In the 1980s,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Throughout the Cold War such priorities reflected a command environment in which —it was regarded as overwhelmingly more important to assure a… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“American cold war culture represented an age of anxiety. The anxiety was so severe that it sought relief in an insistent, assertive… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Despite the support of all these kings and generals, militarily the Warsaw Pact had a huge numerical superiority over NATO. In order… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law. The very facts were shrouded in… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
For two generations up through the mid-1980s, many thought we were losing the Cold War, even in early 1989, few believed that… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date.… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
“Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies seeking purpose in an environment… — Ben Hinson Copy Share Image
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
“The only modern presidents to really succeed in education (in limited ways) were Eisenhower and Johnson; the former, because he had very… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic.… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, unexpectedly, someone is using the ugly powers of war, which horrify me, to try to pull and drag me away from… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
“This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. As a civilian I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
For over two centuries, each generation of Americans before us confronted and solved problems. They embraced opportunities and Americans have never had… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“During the Cold War, widespread alcoholism was always seen in the West as evidence that life under Communism was so dismal that… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan - I was 12 when he was murdered -… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
“All these developments reflect new strategic opportunities. Unlike the days of the Cold War which was marked by rigid power relationships, the… — SBYudhoyono Copy Share Image