Cold War Quotes

364 Cold War quotes by 215 unique authors

Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on. — Ronald Reagan
When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed the failure of… — Margaret Thatcher
I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War… — Eduard Shevardnadze
All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the two… — Andrew Sullivan
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators… — Richard Perle
You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it… — Mark Steyn
I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did… — Barack Obama
How does it feel to be the 's third choice? Humiliating? You could have thrown a dart. That's how close they were. We had so… — Ronald Reagan
By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with… — Ronald Reagan
The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world. — Al Gore
Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty… — Ann Coulter
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead. — John le Carre
[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove. — John Burroughs
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are. — Stewart Udall
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh… — William J. Clinton
Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular. — Li Peng
As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need… — George Tenet
I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school. — Alexander Haig
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness. — Alexander Haig
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. — Larry Niven
The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War. — Russell Banks
I was very much a child of the Cold War. — Justin Cronin
I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy… — Julian Castro
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal. — Lincoln Chafee
After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a… — Frank Gaffney

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