Cold War Quotes

During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they were useful to us in this respect.

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

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

We are seeking to avoid a new Cold War, avoid a new arms race, and, therefore, we continue to work for a more constructive relationship with Russia, including political dialogue with Russia.

Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.

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

The long bitter years of the Cold War are over. America and her allies have won; totally, decisively, and overwhelmingly....So thank you SAC. Job well done. Enjoy your retirement.

A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".

"World War III, was the Cold War".

And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.

The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

We are plunging headlong into a cold war, and we have 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.

One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.

The cold war is over; Japan won.

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.

If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.

You're in there with me. Personally.

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

Bernie Sanders has shown that socialism is no longer the barrier that it used to be during the Cold War.

Ronald Reagan set the stage for the end of the Cold War.

In the 80s, we were still living in a kind of Cold War environment.

The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

The Cold War is over. And our focus has got to be on intelligence, increased manpower, fighting internationally targets.