Cold War Quotes - Page 23

• What is the great fear of the United States? That an Eastern power will build a navy to challenge us. How do you keep them from doing that? Keep them at each other's throats so they don't have any money to do this. This is why we fought the First World War, the Second World War, and the Cold War.

  George Friedman

  War, Challenges, Navy

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh.

  Leszek Kolakowski

  War, Ideas, Years

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• 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.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Russia

  "Transcript: George H.W. Bush on "FOX News Sunday". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2007.

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• 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 .

  George Lee Butler

  Country, War, Usa

  "Gen. George Lee Butler". Interview with Michael McGuire, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 17, 1999.

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• I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.

  Jules Feiffer

  War, Dumb, Cold

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

  Matt Taibbi

  War, America, Identity

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• There is a pervasive mistrust that grew out of the Cold War and still continues today - even though there are a lot more mutual interests between Europe, Russia and the United States than ever before. But the way we organize things today, it takes years to negotiate. By the time you get a result, the technology has far outrun the policy. So we have to start a dynamic, sustainable type of policy deliberations that can catch up with technology.

  Sam Nunn

  War, Technology, Today

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Cold War has ended. It's very simple. We are no longer living in a bipolar world. The chances that we will go to war with Russia are pretty much ended. Mutually Assured Destruction was a doctrine that worked very well for decades as a deterrent, but the world has fundamentally changed.

  Valerie Plame

  War, Simple, Bipolar

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Winning, Race

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• A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.

  Vaclav Havel

  Lying, Exercise, Rights

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.

  Lech Walesa

  War, Nails, Coffins

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• The threat of a world war is no more.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, World, Cold

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

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Russia, Europe

  "The Miami Herald", (p. 6A), December 18, 1947.

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• There can be no whitewash at the White House.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, White, House

  Televised speech, 30 Apr. 1973

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• One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Easter, War, Looks

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• All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

  Jim Ramstad

  Leadership, Gratitude, Strong

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• If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

  Ronald Reagan

  Party, Political, Unions

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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• I think, a general anxiety, after the end of the Cold War, to find a new basis for affirming American nationhood. And perhaps another, in plainer terms, is the lure of the approaching Abraham Lincoln bicentennial has been made a resurgence in interest in Lincoln.

  Allen C. Guelzo

  War, Thinking, Anxiety

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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