George H. W. Bush Quotes

Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

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

My generation was the tail end of the Cold War.

World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.

"World War III, was the Cold War".

When we refused to be forced out of Berlin, we demonstrated to the people of Europe that with their cooperation we would act, and act resolutely, when their freedom was threatened.

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

I'm a child of the Cold War. You do not say, "Oh, my God, there are Russian planes, so I'm going to cede the field." I mean, what kind of world would we have had if the United States had done that for 60 years?

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

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

Containment was merely appeasement on the installment plan.

The Cold War is Over

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

The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe.

During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they were useful to us in this respect.

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

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

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

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.

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

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.

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.

Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.

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.

The last time you and I sat across a conference table in Potsdam [July-August, 1945], I must confess Sir, I held you in very low regard. I loathed your taking the place of Franklin Roosevelt. I misjudged you badly. Since that time, you more than any other man have saved Western Civilization.