Cold Quote by Bill Bradley

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

— John Mearsheimer

Leading with its values gave the United States a sense of purpose in the Cold War.

— Tom Malinowski

We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We…

— Fareed Zakaria

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent or have…

— Mario Bunge

For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we…

— Norman Mailer

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that…

— Norman Mailer

The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean…

— Graham T. Allison

You've got to remember the Cold War was a very real thing then, so the relationship with the United States was very, very important.…

— Bob Hawke

Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO enlargement, and in recent years, they have made it clear that they would not stand…

— John Mearsheimer

Franklin Roosevelt saw the world as a possible alliance, with the UN involved, of course, where we would never have these kinds of wars…

— Oliver Stone