Matthew Rhys Quotes

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

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

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.

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

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

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 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.

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What's good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War, with the U.S. or any other country in the world.

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

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.

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

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 only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

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

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

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.

Now we are in a period which I can characterize as a cold peace.

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

In order to function, the United States needs an enemy.