Doom Quote by Eskinder Nega

I have never seen a more hopeful, optimistic, and excited place on earth than Iraq in the spring of 2003. The oppressed people of…

— Seth Moulton

The late 1990s were really a moment of still tremendous hope and optimism about the relationship between Russia and the United States.

— Antony Blinken

“The consistent optimism of our liberal culture has prevented modern democratic societies both from gauging the perils of freedom accurately and from appreciating democracy…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire…

— Daniel Fried

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

— Vladimir Putin

I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As…

— Connie Zweig

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought the last Soviet generation was going to be the great hope for democracy. When that failed, their…

— Masha Gessen

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having…

— Natan Sharansky

From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young…

— Golda Meir

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

— Stephen Ambrose

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall,…

— Justin Cronin

Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of…

— George Clooney