The Cold War Quotes
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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
The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.
— Nadeem Aslam
The Cold War is over. And our focus has got to be on intelligence, increased manpower, fighting internationally targets.
— Bernie Sanders
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
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
'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.
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If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.
— Harry S. Truman
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
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
— Charles Stross
"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".
— Norman Podhoretz
Why did I decide to write cyber thrillers? Because we've gone from the Cold War to the Code War.
— Thomas Waite
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
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
— Walter Lippmann
'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
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
— Daniel Silva
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
— Richard Perle
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
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
— Bernard Baruch
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
Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.
— William J. Clinton
Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.
— Kendare Blake
You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime
— Andrea Gibson
With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.
— Annie Jacobsen
The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.
— Robert Dallek
I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.
— Malcolm Gladwell
War is hot, not cold.
— Kenneth Eade
The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.
— Bill Gates
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.
— Matt Taibbi
George, you won,' said Guillam, as they walked slowly towards the car.'Did I?' said Smiley. 'Yes. Yes, well I suppose I did. — John Le Carre
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
The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
— Richard M. Nixon
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
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
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
— Stephen Ambrose
Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
— Margaret Thatcher
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
I was very much a child of the Cold War.
— Justin Cronin
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
By the grace of God, we won the Cold War.
— George H. W. Bush
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
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
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
Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.
— Ben Dreyfuss
The threat of a world war is no more.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
— Larry Niven
I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.
— Grant Morrison
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
The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
— Joseph Rotblat
Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me?
— Lewis Armistead
The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.
— Jeff Sharlet
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 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
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
Nothing in recent history makes any sense without a deep understanding of WWII and The Holocaust.
— A.E. Samaan
