Cold War Quotes - Page 13

• The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Opportunity, Moscow

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold War tensions - the tendency is to counteract the feelings of fear and vulnerability with a variety of military, paramilitary and police measures, despite the reality that this kind of excessive reliance on force in many ways intensifies the very problem it is purporting to solve.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, War, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U.S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused.

  Graham T. Allison

  Confused, War, Mean

  "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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• The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

  Jeff Sharlet

  War, Struggle, Political

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the Cold War of conspiracy theories and amazing achievements that are very easily traced and validated.

  Bassem Youssef

  Stupid, War, People

  "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• That is potentially putting us all in the target hairs now is the reactivation of a new nuclear arms race. This arms race and this cold war is potentially hotter than it's been at any time in my lifetime.

  Jill Stein

  War, Hair, Race

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

  Barack Obama

  War, Thinking, Europe

  Source: time.com

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• We thought that the odds of things working OK were up in the upper 90 percent or we wouldn't have gone. But the - there were some problems cropped up on the flight but was able to take care of those OK and - although they were things that we hadn't really trained that much for. But it was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology.

  John Glenn

  War, Technology, Odds

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers, but that may not always exist. And certainly one could even predict that there will be periods of hostility or tension ahead.

  John Burroughs

  War, World, May

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• [Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

  John Burroughs

  War, Thinking, Order

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• I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.

  Jon Spaihts

  War, Kids, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.

  Bob Ainsworth

  Country, War, Teeth

  "Bob Ainsworth: Gordon Brown 'impossible' to work with" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2010.

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• The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

  Bill Gates

  War, Fall, Hands

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• (On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony."

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Would Be, Body

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• 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

  Crush, War, Texas

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• No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Successful, College

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• The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Firsts, Cold

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• It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.

  Nelson DeMille

  War, Book, Different

  Talk City Network Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2000.

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• We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn't cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn't cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  War, Hands, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We desperately need in this country a discussion of American policy toward Russia. We can't keep saying an untruth, that this new Cold War is solely the fault of Putin. We need to rethink our policy toward Russia.

  Stephen F. Cohen

  Country, War, Cold

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Just as we won the Cold War in part by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so, too, must we take on the ideology of radical Islam.

  Donald Trump

  War, Evil, Islam

  "Trump, white working class voters and what the media miss". "The Kelly File" with Trish Regan, www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2016.

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• President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

  Judy Woodruff

  War, President, Cold

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are seeking to avoid a new Cold War, avoid a new arms race, and, therefore, we continue to work for a more constructive relationship with Russia, including political dialogue with Russia.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  War, Political, Cold

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think Russia is dangerous, not a superpower. I know what the president is trying to say. I worked for him for five years, not just two.He doesn't want us to overreact. He doesn't want to go back to the Cold War and some superpower competition. But my own view, and I think General Mattis stated something similar today, is that Russia is a challenge for the United States. It is a threat to some of our allies.

  Michael McFaul

  War, Thinking, Competition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.

  Ai Weiwei

  War, Chinese, Cold

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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