Cold war Quote by Robert McNamara

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had…

— Jimmy Carter

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

— Justin Cronin

I'm a child of the Cold War. You do not say, "Oh, my God, there are Russian planes, so I'm going to cede the…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to…

— Kary Mullis

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs…

— Alice Walker

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

— Robert McNamara

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

— John le Carre

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 suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have…

— Harry S. Truman

I spent almost a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA. I was the guy in the back alleys at four o'clock in…

— Will Hurd

“From 1957 through 1961, Khrushchev openly, repeatedly, and bloodcurdlingly threatened the West with nuclear annihilation. Soviet missile capabilities were so far superior to those…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“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