Cold War Quotes

364 quotes by 220 authors

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished… — Russell Baker
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie… — Russell Baker
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. — Bernard Baruch
For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of… — Conrad Black
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology… — Tony Blair
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who… — James Buchan
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. — Madeleine Albright
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre
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
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000… — Jimmy Carter
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. — Fidel Castro
The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and… — Chris Christie
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. — Stephen Ambrose
If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really… — Taisen Deshimaru
Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and… — Valerie Plame
After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to… — Michio Kaku
In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to… — Kofi Annan
The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's… — George H. W. Bush
Pentagon's readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold War… — Franklin C. Spinney

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