Able Quote by Ashton Carter

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to…

— Kary Mullis

If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our…

— Rudy Giuliani

It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who…

— George Friedman

To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing…

— Earl Browder

President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But…

— John F. Kennedy

The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in…

— Anne Applebaum

We have for decades now, and I've dealt with the Russians for 35 years, we have from time to time been able to, even…

— Ashton Carter

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct…

— Vladimir Putin

As we learned during the Cold War, the presence of massive nuclear arsenals does not stop great powers from worrying about conventional force balances…

— John Mearsheimer

George W. Bush tried working with the Russians after 9/11; Obama had the reset. Both presidents achieved less than they wanted, but they both…

— Daniel Fried

“For several crucial days, I believe, Kennedy and Khrushchev were each privately prepared to back down, “but not yet,” as they sparred with forces…

— Daniel Ellsberg