“[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.” MenPurposeColdPoliticianDeceitfulCold Blooded Author:Malcolm X
“One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was exposed to more reports than average individuals, who had a better understanding of the bigger picture - was that the post - World War II, post - Cold War directions of societies were either broadly authoritarian or [broadly] liberal or libertarian.” WorldWarIndividualUnderstandingCommunityColdConcernBiggerAverageLibertarianAccessPostsWar Of The WorldsReportsBroadsExposedWorld War IiWorld War ICold WarBigger PictureIntelligence Community Author:Edward Snowden
“With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.” WarEndsHelpingEvilDemocracyMankindCenturyColdCommunismFascismCold War20th CenturyApartheidNazismDemocracies HaveIsms Author:Jack Kemp
“America is on a course, now, that will lead to the final conflagration, The Final War - which has been cold, pretty much, up to now. But it will become hot, and the whole world will be engulfed in this Final War that I think these policies from our government will bring into existence.” ThinkingWorldHas BeensWarWholeGovernmentAmericaCoursesExistencePolicyColdHotFinalsWhole World Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I expect that Trump believes we do not have an obligation to have a Cold War with Russia, but that he is very cautious.” BelieveWarColdTrumpRussiaObligationCold WarCautious Author:Newt Gingrich
“Polar bears can swim 100 miles. They aren't like us. We might be 'stranded' on an ice floe if there's no land nearby, and we had no helicopter and no jet ski. We might be in trouble, but they're polar bears, and they can live in icy cold water by design. They love it.” IfsMightWaterTroubleLandDesignColdBearsMilesIceSwimJetSkisIcyHelicoptersStrandedCold WaterPolar Bears Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Replace the words "have to" with "get to" and watch how the cold rain on your life changes to sunshine.” WatchesColdRainLife ChangingSunshine Author:Mary Schmich
“I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.” HeartStuffSleepColdBedIntimateReportsSheetsLeaving MeItemsColumnsPowderMinerva Author:Paul Newman
“I offer a better way for America with ideas that actually work, a reformed tax code that rewards free enterprise instead of just enterprising lobbyists. A reformed health care system that operates by free choice instead of by force and doesn't leave you answering to cold, clueless bureaucrats. A commitment to a renewed commitment to building a 21st Century military and giving our veterans the care that they were promised and the care that they earned.” WayGivingIdeasCareAmericaChoicesForceCenturyMilitaryBuildingColdOffersTaxesCommitmentRewardsHealth CareCodeEnterprise21st CenturyVeteranBetter WaysBureaucratsFree EnterpriseLobbyistsCluelessOur VeteransFree ChoiceHealth Care SystemEnterprising Author:Paul Ryan
“If [Ho Chi Minh] had had carte blanche over his movement, would the results of the war have been different? That is difficult to say. In some cases - as in 1945 and 1946, he appeared to overestimate the possibility that the United States might decide to recognize his government and the independence of the DRV (although to be fair, from the outset he had warned that Washington might eventually decide to align with the French because of the Cold War).” IfsHas BeensDifferentWarStatesGovernmentMightDifficultUnitedResultsCasesUnited StatesMovementPossibilityColdFairsIndependenceCold WarOverestimateBlanche Author:William J. Duiker
“When the whistle blows each morning and I walk down in that cold, dark mine, say a prayer to my dear savior. Please let me see the sunshine one more time. When oh when will it be over? When will I lay these burdens down? And when I die, dear lord in heaven, please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground.” SoulDiesHeavenDarkPrayerWalksLordMorningMinesColdPleaseLet MeDown AndLaysDearBlowBurdenMy SoulSunshineMore TimeSaviorDear Lord Author:Dwight Yoakam
“If you're a Brit you kinda get used to people being cold and aloof and just generally arrogant - particularly musicians. (Compared to Londoners New Yorkers are a walk in the park!)” PeopleIfsUsedWalksColdMusicianParksArrogantNew YorkersAloofBritsLondonersWalks In The Park Author:Thea Gilmore
“All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'” MenMayHistoryPrideColdCitizensConservativePresidentialPatrioticCold WarBerlinFree ManWest Berlin Author:John F. Kennedy
“There's the complex categorization of low warmth/high competence. This is the hostile stereotype of Asian Americans by white America, of Jews in Europe, of Indo-Pakistanis in East Africa, of Lebanese in West Africa, of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia, and of the rich by the poor most everywhere. It's the same low-high derogation: They're cold, greedy, clannish - -but, dang, they're sure good at making money and you should go to one who is a doctor if you're seriously sick.” IfsShouldAmericaWhitePoorRichColdLowsEuropeDoctorsSickWestComplexesJewEastChineseMaking MoneyWarmthStereotypeGreedyHostileAsianCompetenceIndonesiaAsian AmericanWest AfricaCategorizationLebaneseEast Africa Author:Robert M. Sapolsky
“We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda.” KnowsWantWarCoursesEnergyStruggleCreativeTalentColdCapitalismCommunismErasPostsPropagandaCold WarCreative EnergyCapitalism And Communism Author:Wole Soyinka
“We shouldn't overdramatize the current disagreements with the Russians. They are real, but they're not really all that threatening. And the notion that we're moving back to some Cold War I think is really an exaggerated judgment.” ThinkingWarRealMovingColdJudgmentNotionCurrentsCold WarThreateningDisagreementExaggeratedMoving Back Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the poor kids, getting a very cheap price and figuring out the cold chain, getting the delivery right, and then funding research for new vaccines. A lot of them are coming along. We've got a meningitis vaccine out, got that through large parts of Africa. That has been a huge success.” WorldHas BeensKidsPoorRichHugeColdCreatingResearchChainsFundingAlliancesDeliveryVaccinesMeningitis Author:Bill Gates
“Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.” Has BeensWarEndsGreaterColdCold War Author:John McCain
“Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States saved Western democracy, both World War - both World Wars and the Cold War.” WorldBelieveWarStatesHappensThreeUnitedUnited StatesGoneDemocracyCenturyColdWesternSavedWar Of The WorldsCold War20th CenturyThree TimesExceptionalismAmerican Exceptionalism Author:Mark Shields
“I focus on fashion of course, I love it. I may go buy an outfit and get dressed just to sit on the couch and watch TV at the crib so on the outside looking in people cold better word it. It's really me just being me.” PeopleMayCoursesWatchesFocusFashionTvsColdJust BeingCouchesBeing MeOutside Looking InJust Being Me Author:Lil Herb
“I drink mate every day during training camp, and just in general. It's packed full of vitamins and nutrients and a lot of B vitamins that you would normally get from meat. The caffeine in there affects me less and it's more like a stimulant. I can drink more of it and it's hydrating as well. It's one of my favorite drinks, especially on a cold morning.” WellsI CanMorningColdDrinkTrainingMy FavoriteMeatCampsMatesVitaminsCaffeineNutrientsStimulantsTraining CampCold Morning Author:Chris Algieri
“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.” IfsWarPresidentColdArguingMore TimeCold WarTrumanPresident Truman Author:Robert Scheer
“Eisenhower provided the first break in the Cold War, by bringing Khrushchev to the United States, in humanizing the Soviets; and then Nixon, by making the opening to China; and then Reagan, even meeting in Reykjavik with Gorbachev and acknowledging that nuclear weapons are a horror. So I won't accept that Republicans just escalate. Republicans, at least when they were more moderate, they were maybe even more isolationist, they sometimes brought sanity to the debate. We don't have that now. We have - all these Republicans have gone off the neoconservative deep end.” FirstsWarEndsSometimesStatesUnitedAcceptingBreakUnited StatesGoneColdRepublicanHorrorWeaponsMeetingsChinaNuclearDebateOpeningSanityNuclear WeaponsCold WarModeratesGorbachevReykjavik Author:Robert Scheer
“Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav and Cuban and - none of these communists get along, and the Koreans and the Vietnamese, and we can do business with them." And then he opened up to China, and that's when the Cold War started.” SaidWarPresidentCan DoColdBecomingMeetingsChinaRidiculousCommunismChineseCommunistCold WarKoreanCubanVietnameseKissingerHenry KissingerBecoming President Author:Robert Scheer
“NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers. We went to the moon because we were at war with the Soviet Union. And so when it became clear that they (Soviet Union) were not going to the moon, we're done with the moon.” WarDoneStepsClearColdMoonUnionsResponseSovietCold WarSoviet UnionNasaExplorers Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general of NATO made a formal statement explaining the purpose of NATO in the post-Cold War world is to control global energy systems, pipelines, and sea lanes. That means it's a global system and of course he didn't say it, it's an intervention force under US command, as we've seen in case after case. So that's NATO.” WorldYearsWellsMeanMadeWarPurposeCoursesEnergyForceAnswersCasesSeaColdCoupleYears AgoStatementsCommandPostsOfficialsSecretaryCold WarFormalInterventionExplainingLanesNatoPipeline Author:Noam Chomsky
“That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a real failure of the intellectual community, including scholarship and the media. It's not like you had headlines all over the place. And it's not secret, the documents are there. And I think that's probably the right picture.” PeopleThinkingYearsWarRealCommunitySecretMediaLike YouColdWeaponsIntellectualStrategyIncludingNuclearPostsNuclear WeaponsDocumentsCold WarScholarshipHeadlines Author:Noam Chomsky
“Let's say that you want to do everything out of the joy that comes from knowing the Lord. Well, a lot of people aren't built like that emotionally. If they think that some sort of feeling is the basis for their action, they are going to feel justified sitting around, although they are going to feel bad that they have never taken one step of obedience because their heart is cold.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFeelsWellsHeartFeelingsActionJoyLordStepsKnowingTakenColdSittingBuiltBasesObedienceJustifiedSitting Around Author:Mark Dever
“The world has always been a dangerous place. Now it is dangerous in a different way, because the world order that we've known since the end of the Cold War has been radically transformed. All of the institutions that preserved peace and promoted global trade will be weaker - NATO, the EU, NAFTA - and US relationships with other countries will change, too.” WorldWayHas BeensDifferentWarEndsCountryOrderKnownDangerousColdInstitutionsTradeDifferent WaysTransformedOther CountriesCold WarWorld OrderNatoRelationships With OthersDangerous PlacesNafta Author:Anne Applebaum
“The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?” KnowsMenWorldMadeWarPhilosophyTodayPastGrowthColdHappeningsWar Of The WorldsBombsLive ByMechanismRegulationCold WarAtomic BombFamilies Today Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“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.” KnowsWantWarGuySupportImagineListeningGrewColdTrumpGrew UpErasZeroCold War Author:Julian Castro
“9/11 was a genuine trauma, and President George W. Bush rallied the country. I think the Iraq war was ill-considered, but there - it was done in the wake of a national trauma. And that the errors made under such circumstances are different than errors made in the cold.” ThinkingMadeDifferentWarCountryDonePresidentColdCircumstancesErrorsIllIraqTraumaGenuineIraq WarPresident George W Bush Author:Daniel Fried
“A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they were governing or solving problems in consequential periods, like the Civil War or the world wars or the Great Depression or the Cold War, they had a period of time and space to actually think, to be private and you read their biographies, and they had time to think about what was happening and how to respond. I don't think human nature has changed in the last 50-150 years, but the stresses, the demands on those of us in public life have just exploded.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldYearsHumansWarProblemAgeLastsSpaceHuman NatureChangedColdPeriodsDemandHappeningsStressAdmireWar Of The WorldsCivil WarProblem SolvingCold WarBiographiesTime And SpaceGoverningPublic LifeGreat DepressionTime To Think Author:Hillary Clinton
“Ronald Reagan set the stage for the end of the Cold War.” WarEndsStageColdCold War Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot have one stereotyped code of morality for every country. One system may work very well in one country and very badly in another. You cannot grow a tropical flower in a cold climate.” WorldWellsMayCountryWholeAsksGrowsFlowerColdMoralityClimateCodeTropicalCold Climate Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“In Brazil, even inside the same city, people from different parts dress differently. Sao Paulo, for example, is more connected to global trends and urban movements. Rio de Janeiro is more influenced by the beach, and has a sort of Cali vibe with the way people dress. Porto Alegre down in the south has a hard winter, so people have to dress to face the cold days.” PeopleWayDifferentHardFacesCitiesExampleMovementColdDressesSouthWinterConnectedBeachTrendsUrbanBrazilRioCold DaysRio De JaneiroPortoSao Paulo Author:Ricardo Nunes
“I'll tell you what the danger is for Europe. It's carrying out a cold war against Russia and pushing Russia into China's arms. That's the threat to Europe.” WarDangerArmsColdEuropeThreatChinaRussiaPushingCold War Author:Marine Le Pen
“I don't know who wants war in America, but I was very happy when Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War by reaching out to Russia. And - and they ended up discarding their Marxist Leninist baloney that had threatened the world for so long.” KnowsWorldWantLongWarAmericaColdRussiaReachingReach OutCold WarThreatenedVery HappyMarxistBaloney Author:Dana Rohrabacher
“I'm happy that now we reveal something about the true Israel, because, you know, now it's Purim, when all the Jews putting mask. And once, we used to have a liberal mask. The most famous mask now in Israel is the mask of a soldier who murdered in cold blood a wounded prisoner of war. Those are the mask that most of the Israeli kids now are using. So, now, when the mask and the true is the same, maybe it's time for Democrats here to stop supporting Israel, if they care about Jews.” IfsKnowsWarCareKidsUsedBloodColdDemocratSoldierJewIsraelMaskPrisonerWoundedIsraeliPrisoner Of War Author:Udi Aloni
“My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire and the putting in order of what came after - the building of a Europe whole, free, and at peace. It`s hard to recall today how improbable victory in the Cold War appeared.” YearsWarHardWholeTodayOrderFallCareersBuildingColdVictoryMy FriendsEuropeEmpiresSovietRecallsCold WarImprobableForeign Service Author:Daniel Fried
“For two generations up through the mid-1980s, many thought we were losing the Cold War, even in early 1989, few believed that Poland`s solidarity movement could win, that the Iron Curtain would come down, that the Baltic states could be free, that the second of the 20th century`s great evils, communism, could be vanquished without war, but it happened and the West`s great institutions, NATO and the E.U., grew to embrace 100 million liberated Europeans.” TwoWarStatesEvilWinningMillionsGenerationsHappenedCenturyMovementGrewColdLosingInstitutionsEmbraceWestCommunismIronSolidarityCold War20th CenturyCurtainsLiberatedNatoPolandIron Curtain Author:Daniel Fried
“You can get an ice-cold Coke for around fifty cents in most developing countries, not just in the major population centers, but at the most remote and surprising places. The logistical challenges to resupplying all these outlets are enormous - and yet, the entire system works with incredible efficiency as is confirmed by the price of the product.” CountryChallengesProductsColdMajorsIncrediblesPopulationEnormousIceDevelopingFiftySurprisingCentsEfficiencyOutletsCokeDeveloping Countries Author:Thomas Pogge
“Basically with the financing of the war economy America emerged as the great power that developed logically into a superpower. I am not going to explain to you the history of the Cold War because you certainly know it but what we see now is China as the rising economic superpower, one that is certainly moving forward.” KnowsWarAmericaMovingEconomyEconomicColdChinaMoving ForwardRisingCold WarSuperpowerGreat PowerFinancing Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents from the Communist bloc. They did not envision the mass displacements of people we are seeing today.” PeopleMindWarTodaySeeingColdThousandProtectMassCommunistConventionsCold WarRefugeeDisplacementDissidents Author:Kofi Annan
“Here is this ability to explore ideas, but with minute changes, and then look at the results. Often you get so excited about what you're doing that you think, "Oh, wow, this is just great." And you look at it a week later and you realize you'd been excited by the act of creation, but what you've created is not really exciting when you look at it in cold blood. And so that, to me, is a valuable lesson also.” ThinkingLooksIdeasRealizingAbilityResultsBloodWeekMinutesCreationColdLessonsExcitingExcitedValuableWowValuable Lessons Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Eazy-E was not a rapper! He was a stone cold businessman. EAZY use to say that out of His own mouth. But one thing that he did have when it came to his artistry , is that voice. At least Eazy-E admitted he had ghost writers & people that wrote for him. Some of today's super star rappers will not admit they have ghost writers. Eazy-E always kept it 1000.” PeopleUseTodayStarsVoiceOne ThingColdMouthsStonesGhostRapperBusinessmanArtistryStone ColdSuper StarEazy E Author:Kokane
“In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances throughout Asia and across Europe that were devised to tame the Soviet Union, which, last time I checked, ceased to exist more than 20 years ago. Today, of course, we have a commitment to go to nuclear war with Russia in case Russia invades Latvia. To me, that's complete and utter nonsense. There ought to be a reconsideration of our posture in every region of the world.” WorldYearsStillsWarEndsFactsTodayLastsCoursesCasesHavensPolicyColdOughtCommitmentEuropeYears AgoUnionsNuclearRussiaNonsenseRegionsSovietForeign PolicyLast TimeCold WarAsiaSoviet UnionAlliancesPostureNuclear WarReconsiderationLatvia Author:Kevin Gutzman
“I came up during the cold war, and during the cold war it was always possible with the then Soviet Union - the Russian leaders behaved carefully and predictably. They didn't engage in nuclear saber rattling. They were able to work with us and align their interests where possible.” WarAbleInterestLeaderColdUnionsNuclearSovietCold WarSoviet Union Author:Ashton Carter
“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!” SidesColdSovietCold WarYou Like ItCall Of DutyBuryingModern WarfareModern Warfare 2Cuban Missile Crisis Author:Nikita Khrushchev
“I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As soon as we lost our age-old enemy, the Soviet Union, we instantly created a new one.” WarStatesAgeRememberLostUnitedEnemyUnited StatesColdUnionsSovietCold WarSoviet UnionSaddamRemember WhenHusseinFervorNationalistic Author:Connie Zweig