Cold War Quotes - Page 16

• Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. The Cold War was over, blah blah blah.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, War, Government

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Bill Ayers

  War, Agendas, Height

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Pentagon's readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold War and a desire by the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC) to protect its comfortable life style in a world that is changing rapidly.

  Franklin C. Spinney

  Military, War, Cutting

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• The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.

  Anatoliy Golitsyn

  War, Communication, Phases

  Anatoliy Golitsyn (1995). “The Perestroika Deception: Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency”

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• 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.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Wall, War, Thinking

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• Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs. Like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Powerful, War

  Vladimir Putin “VLADIMIR PUTIN: Munich”, ITBM

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• We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, War, Rain

  "Nobel Prize for Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 25, 1991.

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• For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon. But the danger posed by war to all humanity-and to our planet-is at least matched by climate change.

  Ban Ki-moon

  War, Winter, Humanity

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• People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.

  Ernst Reuter

  War, Cities, People

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• We're not trying to be deliberately frustrating, but we are laying the tracks for a mystery, and it's one that we have all figured out. We wanted this to be kind of like the way that Cliff [Chang] and I felt about the Cold War in the '80s when we were 12.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  War, Track, Trying

  "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.

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• After the end of the cold war, everybody thought, fantastic, finally the UN may be able to do what it was originally set up to do without big power divisions. It would be easy to get them to come together to resolve things. You will recall, on the first Gulf war, you almost got a unanimous resolution and a very solid coalition.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Together, May

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• After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

  Hans Kung

  War, Two, Humanity

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• The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Technology, Hands

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• If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it!

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Buddhist, Drinking, Glasses

  "Real Magic : Creating Miracles in Everyday Life" by Wayne W. Dyer, (p. 123), 2001.

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• Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb

  Valerie Plame

  Wall, War, College

  "Is Obama's Nuclear Security Summit More Than a Symbolic Gesture?" by Huma Khan, abcnews.go.com. April 12, 2010.

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• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Lying, Europe

  "The Sinews of Peace". Winston Churchill's speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, www.nato.int. March 5, 1946.

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• In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to face grave nuclear threats, but those threats are being compounded by new weapons developments, new violence within States and new challenges to the rule of law.

  Kofi Annan

  Peace, War, Law

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• 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.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Gun, Kuwait

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• The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer - the finest homes, the finest college educations, and the finest jobs in Government we can give.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Jobs, War, Home

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• 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

  War, Cold, Witch

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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Two

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  War, Literature, Russian History

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• The cold war is over, but cold war thinking survives.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Thinking, Cold

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris

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• I think during the Cold War in America at least, there was a division; there was the Soviet government and there were the oppressed people, who were not represented by this government. That was a massive oversimplification of what the true situation was there. There were certainly many people who were completely and fully alienated from the government.

  Joe Weisberg

  War, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.

  Herbie Hancock

  War, Iron, World

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