Balance Quote by Ronen Bergman

The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

[Russians would like to] undermine the West and its institutions, create doubts about NATO, create doubts about the European Union, support nationalists on the…

— Daniel Fried

All the intelligence services of America and Europe know full well that the disastrous attack ( of 9/11 ) has been planned and realized…

— Francesco Cossiga

As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer…

— George Tenet

It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower,…

— Barack Obama

“Just as the West’s support for the Afghan jihad against the Soviets in the 1980s laid the ground for the rise of Islamist terrorism,…

— Edward Luce

For us, the idea was not to get involved more than necessary in the fight against the Russians, which was the business of the…

— Osama bin Laden

“The umbrella assertion made by Team B—and the most inflammatory—was that the previous National Intelligence Estimates “substantially misperceived the motivations behind Soviet strategic programs,…

— Rachel Maddow

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

— Stephen Kinzer

The Western world doesn't really give enough credit to the importance in history of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent war in Afghanistan. For…

— Michael Scheuer

Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.

— Alexander Haig

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to…

— Bob Graham