Erik Prince Quotes

It's Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.

I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.

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.

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

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

The USSR has emerged from the war in the role of one of most authoritative powers in world. It is now impossible to solve serious questions of international relations without participation of USSR.

There is only one thing worse than one nation having the atomic bomb -- that's two nations having it.

I know there is no present evidence, and I think there is no present likelihood that the Cubans and the Cuban Government and the Soviet Government would in combination attempt to install major offensive capability.

Containment was merely appeasement on the installment plan.

Russia will likely have the atomic bomb by mid-1953.

The Cold War is Over

It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big powers who need the United States for their protection. It is all the others.

We are running out of enemies. We are down to Fidel Castro and Kim Il Sung.

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

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

The culture and values of many former Soviet republics really do differ from what prevails in the West.

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

China, North Korea's last ally in the world has just voted agaisnt them [in the United Nations]. What would you do if you thought every country in the world was against you and you wanted to survive? You would buy insurance. And the best insurance you could get to prevent invasion would be nuclear weapons, and that is just what North Korea has done. So now, when the President [Trump] threatens them, what do they do? They go out and buymore insurance.

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