Thomas Piketty Quotes

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 think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

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.

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

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

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

Although the war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

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 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.

Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.

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

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.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

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