Jiang Wen Quotes

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

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

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

… 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.

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

The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don't agree. If you look at the Cold War, you could argue that a war was bound to happen between the Soviet Union and its allies and the United States and its allies, but it didn't.

"World War III, was the Cold War".

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

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.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

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

The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

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.

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 United States does not believe in durable coexistence with a moral threat.

The Cold War is Over

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

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…

A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile from the Soviet Union or Cuba.

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.

If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

The Cold War has ended for America.

If we look decades ago, we know that NATO allies contributed a lot of equipment close to the border of the Soviet Union.