Containment Quotes

It's probably better to have the son-of-a-bitch inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.

[John] Foster Dulles is the only case I know of a bull who carries his china shop with him.

The great wall of China was built just as much to keep the Chinese in as to keep the barbarians out.

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

Over time the maintenance of U.S. credibility quietly supplanted the stated policy objective of a free and independent South Vietnam.

Spain is a bottle of beer and I am the cork. When that comes out, all the liquid inside will escape, God knows in what direction.

I do not believe that Communism will overwhelm the free world.

It is clearly unwise for us to continue the attempt to carry alone, or largely single-handed, the opposition to Soviet expansion. It is urgently necessary for us to restore something of the balance of power in Europe and Asia by strengthening local forces of independence and by getting them to assume part of our burden.

Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

It cannot be too often reiterated that this Government does not possess the weapons which would be needed to enable it to meet head-on the threat to national independence presented by the communist elements in foreign countries. This poses an extremely difficult problem as to the measures which our Government can take to prevent the communists from achieving success in the countries where resistance is lowest.

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

U. S. foreign policy in the 20th century was characterized by disastrous oscillations between over-commitment and isolation

Oh, things will be all right. I have left Taft sitting on the lid.

See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.

I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.

In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

Our use of the United Nations as an instrument for opposing Soviet expansion. prior to the conclusion of peace, has strained that institution severely. It has an increasing tendency to alarm smaller nations and to paralyze, rather than stimulate, their will to play an active part in the organization

For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison.

Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.

Casemiro has to cover the gaps left by everyone. That's balance for me; to make sure the game doesn't go mad.

I think a weakened, fragmented, chaotic Iraq, which could happen if this isn’t done carefully, is more dangerous in the long run than a contained Saddam is now.

They are two different countries.

As to Korea, there is no longer any real hope of a genuinely peaceful and free democratic development in that country. Its political life in the coming period is bound to be dominated by political immaturity and violence. Where such conditions prevail, the communists are in their element. Therefore, we cannot count on native Korean forces to help us hold the line against Soviet expansion