Cold Quote by Kristen Soltis Anderson

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any…

— Rand Paul

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

— Jeff Sharlet

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

“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

During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a…

— Thomas Sowell

Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent or have…

— Mario Bunge

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need…

— John McCain

The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at…

— Dmitry Medvedev

When the United States worked to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we went to enormous lengths to get as many countries…

— John Mearsheimer

Basically with the financing of the war economy America emerged as the great power that developed logically into a superpower. I am not going…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski