Arms Quote by Jeane Kirkpatrick

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength.

— Rand Paul

“updates to the nation’s nuclear weapons policies represented just the third major shift in the Cold War; following Eisenhower’s “massive retaliation” and the “assured…

— Garrett M. Graff

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they…

— Alexander Haig

President [Ronald] Reagan told me he would negotiate and negotiate and negotiate with the Soviets, and I believed him.

— Helmut Schmidt

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

— Newt Gingrich

Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them.

— Elliott Abrams

I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at…

— Helmut Schmidt

Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.

— William Safire

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct…

— Vladimir Putin

I wouldn't even go into the history of the last days of the Soviet Union, the withdrawal from Europe, and what promises were given…

— Sergei Lavrov

During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they…

— Zalmay Khalilzad