Elmer Davis Quotes

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

"World War III, was the Cold War".

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.

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.

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.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

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.

Nations are much more dangerous than terrorists in the long run.

… this whole Near East problem is not just an Arab-Israeli dispute but a problem of the influence of the West as opposed to that of the Soviet. We want no wars, but we do not want a Sovietized world.

… international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

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

Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.

The war in Iraq has fractured the political will of the United States and the world.

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

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

We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn't cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn't cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.

The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.

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

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer.

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.