Richard Nixon Quotes

Containment was merely appeasement on the installment plan.

My last words to you, my son and successor, are: Never trust the Russians!

Our opposition to Communist expansion is not an absolute factor; containment must be taken in relation to American security and American objectives.

John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world.

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

[John] Foster Dulles is the only case I know of a bull who carries his china shop with him.

The participation of the Soviet Union in the League of Nations no more transforms the character of the League … than the participation of a Communist in Parliament transforms the character of Parliament.

The United States is as weak as the Soviet Union. If enough pressure is applied to them, they will pull out of the Middle East.

The Cold War didn't end. It was won.

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.

During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.

At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

[I never implied] that President Truman was disloyal or pro-Communist. He was blind to the Communist menace and used very bad judgement.

Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all — in one way or another — obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster…

The Russians are liars – you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world power is like this, but that's the way it is, and we must keep our strength.

These four mongrels are supposed to be our defense against Communism and the extremes of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East.

Ralph Bunche has been working as an agent of the International Communist Conspiracy for more than two decades.

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace — not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.

… this whole Near East problem is not just an Arab-Israeli dispute but a problem of the influence of the West as opposed to that of the Soviet. We want no wars, but we do not want a Sovietized world.