Cold War Quotes

364 Cold War quotes by 215 unique authors

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe. — Walter Lippmann
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 wiped… — Norman Mailer
Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win. This was a… — Ann Coulter
The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair. — Margot Robbie
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the… — Edward Abbey
Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a New World Order - can emerge. . . Now, we can see a New World… — George H. W. Bush
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
We were really helped when President Ronald Reagan came in. I remember non-commissioned officers who were going to retire and they re-enlisted because they believed… — Wesley Clark
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers… — Fareed Zakaria
Every generation faces a challenge. In the 1930s, it was the creation of Social Security. In the 1960s, it was putting a man on the… — Eileen Claussen
Future U.S. political leaders, those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me, may not consider the return… — Robert M. Gates
We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the slightest provocation. We… — Wu Bangguo
As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come… — Alan Cranston
Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver,… — Unknown Author
Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world. — James Packer
Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the… — Mary Landrieu
Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What,… — Thomas Merton
One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them… — Kathryn Bigelow
Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do. — Bill Hicks
Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot. — Margaret Thatcher
Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron… — Margaret Thatcher
America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade… — Jo Ann Emerson
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great… — Samuel P. Huntington
We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone… — Mikhail Gorbachev
For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It… — Hans Blix

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