20th century Quote by Jeff Sharlet

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the…

— Pat Buchanan

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the…

— Robert D. Kaplan

The Cold War was obviously driven by a very intense ideological struggle that was very clearly defined.

— Fiona Hill

“to the American power elite one of the longest lasting and most essential foreign policy goals has been preventing the rise of any society…

— William Blum

The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

— Bill Vaughan

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

— Adam Hochschild

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

— Donald Rumsfeld

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

We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

You've got to remember the Cold War was a very real thing then, so the relationship with the United States was very, very important.…

— Bob Hawke

By the time I got to college, the Cold War was basically over.

— Elif Batuman

In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

— Tariq Ali