Ken Follett Quotes

Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

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

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

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.

The Soviet Union is a first rate military power and a fourth rate economic power.

Containment was merely appeasement on the installment plan.

The Cold War is Over

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

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.

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

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

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.

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