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

Author:Li Peng

“As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.”

Needs Years Has Beens War Past Nations Powerful Cold Depth Seven Collections Capability Cold War Seven Years Expertise Over The Past Satellites Rebuilding Clandestine

Author:George Tenet

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

War Reading Novel Policy Grew Cold Grew Up Classic Soviet Foreign Policy Cold War Espionage Russian History

Author:Daniel Silva

“When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.”

Thinking World War Country Facts Interest Known Break Cold Western Germany Cold War Nazi Wwii Western World

Author:Arnon Goldfinger

“Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.”

War Policy Cold Cold War Cuba

Author:Stephen Walt

“Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning?”

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Author:Sam Nunn

“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.”

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Author:George Clooney

“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.”

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Author:Rudy Giuliani

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

Want War Term Century Greatness Cold Empires Cold War Putin 19th Century

Author:William J. Clinton

“President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.”

War Ends America Spirit Belief President Democracy Cold Optimism Ultimate Triumph Willingness Phases Cold War Brighter His Smile President Reagan

Author:Colin Powell

“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.”

Book War Stuff Boys Wife Week Cold Couple My Wife Cold War Spy Like A Boy Demolish

Author:Noel Gallagher

“During the day on Monday, Washington time, the airport at Saigon came under persistent rocket as well as artillery fire and was effectively closed. The military situation in the area deteriorated rapidly. I therefore ordered the evacuation of all American personnel remaining in South Vietnam.”

Wells War Situation Fire Military Cold Areas South Vietnam Cold War Monday Airports Persistent Rockets Personnel Artillery Evacuation Saigon

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1975

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1975

“If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with one side of the Cold War - then presumably the run on the pound, the result in the stock exchanges of the world, will be fairly catastrophic for the economy. But some sort of political realignment is plainly what this country needs.”

Ifs World Needs War Country Running Political Sides Results Economy Cold Britain Bombs Pounds Cold War Nato Stock Exchange

Author:David Hare

“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.”

War Type Cold Opposites Universal Ideology Appeals Cold War Putin Mystic Arches Motherland

Author:George Packer

“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.”

Needs War Would Be Cold Conflict Weapons Commitment Competition Following Release Cold War Reduction Drastic

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

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

War America Cold Notes Borders Division Cold War Hostile Aberration

Author:Bill Vaughan

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

War Peace Answers Cold Regimes Cold War Wages

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958

“It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.”

Hands Light Left Dark Darkness Cold Shadow Female Males Snow Warmth Cold War Left Hand Fear Courage Yang Yin And Yang Light Dark

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“The cold war is over; Japan won.”

War Cold Japan Cold War

Author:Paul Tsongas

“It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold Warriors' gravest curse words, applied with caustic hostility to India and even France. Those who were not with were against, subjected to intense economic and ideological and sometimes military pressure to fall into line.”

Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.”

“I think the US and Russia are mirroring each other and they have this love/hate relationship since the Cold War. You feel it when you go to Russia; they admire and hate the US at the same time, and here also there's this mistrust and it's always going to be there.”

Thinking Feels War Hate Cold Russia Admire Cold War Love Hate Mistrust Love Hate Relationship Mirroring

Author:Sophie Barthes

“In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.”

World Firsts War Would Be Able Jobs President Term Saws Worst Information Cold Vulnerable Cold War Integrated Information Society

Author:William J. Clinton

“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.”

World War Humanity Social Economic Cold Crisis Population Scales Eras Posts Cold War Rapids Unprecedented World Population

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“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.”

War Used Chance Simple Cold Stronger Nuclear Bombs Cold War Emerging Proliferation Nuclear Bomb Nuclear Proliferation

Author:Johann Hari

“The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. For him (Ahmadinejad), Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement.”

War States Philosophy President United United States Cold Weapons Destruction Mad Unions Nuclear Former Iran Mutual Soviet Nuclear Weapons Cold War Soviet Union Assured Deterrent

Author:Bernard Lewis

“The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society bingeing on fear makes itself vulnerable to far more profound forms of destruction than terror attacks. The "terrorism war", like a nostalgic echo of the cold war, is using these popular fears to advance a different agenda - the re-engineering of American life through permanent mobilization.”

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

War Might Left Cold Convinced Conclusion Dictator Cold War Profitable Appeasement

Author:Mona Charen

“It is not the conservative psyche that needs analysis. Conservatives were right in the Cold War --so right that liberals are pretending they were with us all along -- and they are right about Iraq. It is Leftists who need to account for their consistently disgraceful positions throughout the Cold War and into the War on Terror.”

Needs War Position Cold Accounts Iraq Conservative Terror Analysis Pretending Consistently Cold War War On Terror Leftists Disgraceful

Author:David Limbaugh

“For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.”

War States Left Accepting Cold Wings Democratic Faults Reform Regimes Cold War Right Wing Left Wing Totalitarian State

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

War Rocks Cold Hollywood Blue Cold War Jeans Blue Jeans

Author:Ben Dreyfuss

“We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the arms race and that they try to restore the spirit of the Cold War.”

World Trying War Spirit Force Forget Race Arms Cold Cold War Imperialism Reactionaries Arms Race

Author:Andrei Grechko

“I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a Soviet Union armed to the teeth. I think we're going to get along fine with Russia, and I don't see them as internationally ambitious.”

Thinking Knows War Worry Fine Cold Unions Russia Teeth Worried Soviet Ambitious Cold War Soviet Union Confrontation Superpower

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace, and I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.”

“Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .”

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Author:George Lee Butler

“I have very fond memories of the 80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.”

Years War Real Remember Memories Cold Threat Cold War 80s Doorstep Brits Formative Years Fond Memories

Author:Matthew Rhys

“Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.”

World War Economic Cold Crisis Seeds Capitalist Cold War Clash Marxist Economic Systems

Author:Joseph Stalin

“The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.”

War Cold Doctors Patient Cold War Deliberate Sinking

Author:George C. Marshall

“It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.”

Men War Belief Lines Cold Generosity Cold War Sinking Life Line

Author:Ernest Bevin

“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.”

World War Today Mankind Danger Cold Nuclear Height Ecology Cold War Superpower Deteriorating Standoffs

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.”

War Cold Cold War Eavesdropping

Author:Vladimir Putin

“There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.”

War Use Evil Moral One Thing Modern New York Students Cold University Liberalism Graduates Cold War Confronting Columbia Graduate Students Columbia University Modern Liberalism

Author:Dennis Prager

“Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.”

Different War Lasts Hours Cold Unions Ice Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Orange Twists Vodka Cubes Happy Hour

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.”

War Country Law Cold Doctrine Broke Soviet Cold War Brezhnev

Author:Jack Kemp

“It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.”

War Force Military Cold Islands Soviet Cold War Coincidence Cuban Thug Advisors Grenada

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.”

Thinking World Ideas War Moving Cold Red Insecurity Cold War Peril Old Ideas Itching

Author:John Anderson

“I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.”

World War States United United States Cold Unions Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Policemen Jailer

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.”

Giving War Would Be Moving Focus Trouble Cold Cost Unions Spending Defense Operations Agency Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Cia Defense Spending

Author:John P. Wheeler III

“With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.”

Giving War Country Walks Cold Relation Unions Faults Refuse Conquer Shooting Soviet Airplane Cold War Soviet Union Negotiation Strain Civilians Resumes Inference

Author:Ronald Reagan

“As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.”

World Mean War Cold Ultimate Objectives Communist Cold War

Author:Vladimir Lenin

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