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

Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous. — Bob Ainsworth

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

The Cold War began with the division of Europe. It can only end when Europe is whole. — George H. W. Bush

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

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying. — Ronald Reagan

The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war. — Nadeem Aslam

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

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

Nobody intends to put up a wall! — Walter Ulbricht

Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves ... After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do. — Bill Hicks

But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War. — George H. W. Bush

Far from being a magic nostrum, true love, so-called, was a lingering illness, a clash of cold steel, a take no-prisoners war between Venus and Mars. — Nina Mason

'the softest, sweetest part of the Cold War, the only truly interesting part, the war of ideas. — Ian McEwan

"World War III, was the Cold War". — R. James Woolsey Jr.

Between cold war and hot peace, our love got sterilized to death. — Natalya Vorobyova

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated. — Vladimir Putin

Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation. — Adam Schiff

We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave? — Margaret Thatcher

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that. — Frank Gehry

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Freedom is not free — Ronald Reagan

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel. — Alex Berenson

They wore their strange beauty like war paint. — Holly Black

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

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went. — Phil Klay

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

The high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come. — Winston Churchill

Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me? — Lewis Armistead

Declare the United States the winner and begin de-escalation. — George Aiken

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. — Larry Niven

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

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies. — Grant Morrison

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer. — Bernard Baruch

We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy. — Stephen Kinzer

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives. — Joseph Rotblat

Peace imposible,war improbable. — Raymond Aron

There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat. — Simon Beaufoy

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose. — Ronald Reagan

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

My war had been so long, my winter so cold. But i had made it home. And for the first time in a long time, i was not afraid. — Ruta Sepetys

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy]. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

We were all survivors - every last one of us who limped our way out to the sidewalks that afternoon and spit in Death's cold face. — Cat Winters

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. — Stephen Ambrose

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

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. — Aldous Huxley

We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable. — Vladimir Putin

Happy are men who yet before they are killed
Can let their veins run cold. — Wilfred Owen

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

'Phantom' follows some of the best submarine cold-war films made. There's just so much tension, I can't even describe it - you have to see it. — Johnathon Schaech

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Why did I decide to write cyber thrillers? Because we've gone from the Cold War to the Code War. — Thomas Waite

In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War. — Tariq Ali

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

Plastic flowers last for hours — Bill Fairclough

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

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead. — John Le Carre

The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure. — Ivan Krastev

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness. — Alexander Haig

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John Le Carre

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

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space. — James Lovelock

Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot. — Margaret Thatcher

A blanket could be used to warn your enemy that you are coming - and that you are warm. Where's the cold war when you need it? — Jarod Kintz

I was very much a child of the Cold War. — Justin Cronin

I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim

The cold war is over; Japan won. — Paul Tsongas

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R. — Hideo Kojima

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir

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

And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness? — Edward Bellamy

Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law. — Tim Weiner

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

The threat of a world war is no more. — Mikhail Gorbachev

During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush it. It was like Austin, Texas. — Craig Ferguson

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. — Bernard Baruch

Russia never lost the Cold War ... because it never ended. — Vladimir Putin

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. — John Cusack

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

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? — Vladimir Putin

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

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

For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them. — A.E. Samaan

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. — Rudy Giuliani

I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn't. — Jeremy Corbyn

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

Nothing in recent history makes any sense without a deep understanding of WWII and The Holocaust. — A.E. Samaan

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

Cold War. China, though technically an ally of the Soviet Union, was in quest of maneuvering — Henry Kissinger

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war. — John F. Kennedy

By the grace of God, we won the Cold War. — George H. W. Bush

You're in there with me. Personally. — John F. Kennedy

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

In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words. — Stephen L. Carter

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. — Ryszard Kapuscinski