Cold War Quotes

364 Cold War quotes by 215 unique authors

Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan… — Robert Dallek
The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished. — Robert Dallek
The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War. — Stephen Kinzer
During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them. — Stephen Kinzer
During the cold war, it was easy for the Pentagon to justify its budget, as the Soviets essentially sized our forces for us. We simply… — Thomas P.M. Barnett
Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred currency is dollars, though euros… — Luke Harding
Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold… — Luke Harding
General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that the military hardware… — Charles Duhigg
The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold… — Annie Jacobsen
With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught. — Annie Jacobsen
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum. — Annie Jacobsen
I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim
I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold… — John Rhys-Davies
The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of… — Jim Bunning
Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation. — Adam Schiff
One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly. — Gerhard Schroder
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out… — Stephen Cohen
The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we… — Eric Shinseki
People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline. — Bob Graham
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in… — Lester B. Pearson
What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world,… — Earl Browder
Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is… — Joseph Rotblat
Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout… — Christo
The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe. — David Remnick

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