Cold War Quotes

364 Cold War quotes by 215 unique authors

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension… — Ang Lee
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space. — James Lovelock
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir
Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also… — Angela Merkel
The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity. — Dylan Moran
The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. — Richard M. Nixon
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. — Rand Paul
Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains. — Vladimir Putin
I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now? — Vladimir Putin
Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash… — Vladimir Putin
All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and… — Jim Ramstad
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party. — Ronald Reagan
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. — Jane Smiley
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity. — Matt Taibbi
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame… — Margaret Thatcher
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic… — Lech Walesa
contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century. — Nick Hornby
Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie actor… — Ann Coulter
My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if… — Sara Gruen
I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies. — Grant Morrison
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose. — Ronald Reagan
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War.… — George Packer
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies. — Richard Perle
The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this… — Mahnaz Afkhami

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