Richard Nixon Quotes

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

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

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

The Cold War is Over

The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

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

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

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.

Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.

We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.

"World War III, was the Cold War".

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

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.

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.

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.

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

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

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

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

In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.

During my childhood in the Cold War, my family saw America as a great ally in our common struggle to keep back Soviet communism.