Earl Browder Quotes

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for 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.

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

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

There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

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.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

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

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

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

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

The Cold War is Over

I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.

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 know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

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.

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.