John le Carre Quotes

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.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

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

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

We know only too well that Communist desire for domination will not stop at either ocean. We urge firmness now.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really found it kind of fascinating; of course, this was during the Cold War. So they were kind of the other great enemy that you grew up hearing about.

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.

Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

The Cold War is Over

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

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

The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

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

Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demonization of the Soviet Union, whether that was through the Cuban Missile Crisis or duck-and-cover, or any of those things that so affected us then.