The Cold War Quotes

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

Just as we won the Cold War in part by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so, too, must we take on the ideology of radical Islam.

I will proudly promote our system of government and our way of life as the best in the world, just like we did in our campaign against communism during the Cold War.

The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.

Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.

The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait.

The Cold War began with the division of Europe. It can only end when Europe is whole.

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.

Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

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

Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?

The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.

[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.

I expect that Trump believes we do not have an obligation to have a Cold War with Russia, but that he is very cautious.

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.

Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.

We have put the Cold War behind us. We no longer count our divisions and our warheads. And I am Russia's first civilian defense minister in many centuries. We have become more pragmatic.

There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.

In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

War is hot, not cold.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

The seriousness of being part of Operation Desert Storm-the first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War- was never lost upon us.

Dear sirs, The cold war isn’t over. When national borders fail, the epidermis is the last line of defense. We are counting on you.Sincerely, Patriot

Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?"This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these people win the Cold War?

I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.

Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.

Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything.

Plastic flowers last for hours

Most of everything is very little of not very much at all.