Zalmay Khalilzad Quotes

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

I'm a child of the Cold War. You do not say, "Oh, my God, there are Russian planes, so I'm going to cede the field." I mean, what kind of world would we have had if the United States had done that for 60 years?

The Cold War began with the division of Europe. It can only end when Europe is whole.

With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted, it became easier - safer - to peek around looking for someone to fear... and maybe do something about. Ideally, somebody far away, from a country about which almost nothing was known.

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

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

Containment was merely appeasement on the installment plan.

Buy the Grace of God, America won the Cold War. The Cold War didn't end--It was won.

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

The problem is not so much that they are Communists as it is that they are Russians.

Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.

We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.

"World War III, was the Cold War".

You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

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

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

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

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

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.