Craig Ferguson Quotes

During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.

Russia is an Evil Empire.

The men now in power in this state [Texas] wish to tolerate slavery

I was taught, growing up, that there are two ends of the political spectrum: left and right. But there's so much more than that. For me, it's about liberty versus authoritarianism.

My father fled from the North, hating communism.

Russia is an adversary not just of the United States but of freedom-loving people everywhere.

Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.

I expect that Trump believes we do not have an obligation to have a Cold War with Russia, but that he is very cautious.

"World War III, was the Cold War".

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

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

My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire and the putting in order of what came after - the building of a Europe whole, free, and at peace. It's hard to recall today how improbable victory in the Cold War appeared.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic reactionaries, to name only a few. Many of these discordant groups disliked the United States intensely. But Americans were able to mobilize them to direct their ire at the Soviet Union first.

An iron curtain has descended over Europe.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his mind. You may enslave him, but you will not conquer his spirit. In every decade since the war Soviet leaders have been reminded that their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day will come when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks; the mortar crumbles; one day, liberty will dawn on the other side of the wall.

I will proudly promote our system of government and our way of life as the best in the world, just like we did in our campaign against communism during the Cold War.

Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.