Short-century Quote by David Burr Gerrard

“What prophecy actually is is not that you actually know that the bomb will fall in 1942. It’s that you know and feel something…

— Allen Ginsberg

If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.

— Donald Rumsfeld

When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models…

— Vladimir Sorokin

“again concluded that the Soviet Union “with a high degree of confidence” could kill the president, vice president, and all fourteen remaining successors within…

— Garrett M. Graff

“Kennedy, who had campaigned strongly on the “Missile Gap” issue, soon discovered as president that the Soviet Union didn’t have the 500 missiles feared—it…

— Garrett M. Graff

“For more than five years, I’d made little progress with my efforts at quiet diplomacy—for one thing, the Soviet leaders kept dying on me.”

— Ronald Reagan

Just as we were engaged in a 20th-century Cold War against the communist Soviet Union, we too are now engaged in a 21st-century Cold…

— Michael Waltz

“I want to step down this year, Vladimir Vladimirovich,” Yeltsin said he told him. “This year. That’s very important. The new century must begin…

— Steven Lee Myers

“He is convinced that China and Russia have already penetrated the U.S. power grid, both for purposes of reconnaissance and, very likely, in order…

— Ted Koppel

“The first decade of the twenty-first century was a crazy bookend to the twentieth, opening with a second Pearl Harbor and ending with a…

— David Frum

I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where…

— Lincoln Chafee

“(Several nation-states, most prominently the Russians and the Chinese, have already spent years conducting just such reconnaissance.)”

— Ted Koppel