Richard Nixon Quotes

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

A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.

He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.

I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political debate. I have been sorely tempted to launch a military attack on foreigners, and have felt the frustration of having to negotiate with allies or even former enemies to reach a consensus instead of taking more decisive unilateral action.

We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

You will never see President Bachmann step one toe out of the United States and apologize for this country.

As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely prelude to complete withdrawal from the conflict. There is solid evidence of his eagerness to end America's military role in that country's civil war.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

Many in China find it perplexing that the U.S. and Russian perceptions are still so heavily influenced by the Cold War.

The United States has been unable to create a post-Cold War security architecture in which Russia feels it has a stake.

Word War III is about to start and we cannot change the position on Vietnam.