Cold war Quote by William Blum

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

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

— Alejandro Castro Espin

“In essence, the constituencies for war and interventions that have dominated U.S. policymaking since the start of the Cold War are alive and flourishing.”

— James McCartney

“First, capitalism has created a world that nobody but a capitalist is capable of running. The only serious attempt to manage the world differently…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists.…

— Pat Buchanan

For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living…

— Kshama Sawant

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

— Lincoln Chafee

In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

“The very first sentence of the September 2002 National Security Strategy (the President's annual laying out to Congress of the country's security objectives) reads,…

— George Soros

I had a history teacher who taught us a lot about the Cold War. You had these examples of countries where the government had…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

The United States emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented absolute and relative power. It was truly first among unequals.

— Richard N. Haass