Matthew Woll Quotes

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

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.

Containment was merely appeasement on the installment plan.

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

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.

Containment

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

There is no doubt that America is now the prime target of international communism.

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

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

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

[I never implied] that President Truman was disloyal or pro-Communist. He was blind to the Communist menace and used very bad judgement.

The United States had an inordinate fear of Communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear.

To Moscow, it must seem that the Cold War is only half over, since the West’s deterrence posture, although muted, lives on.

Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.

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.

When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism.

I wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.

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

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.

Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.

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

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

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.