“When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.”— Andrew J. Bacevich
“The whole course of the new militaristic round of the arms race, which was started by Washington, shows that it is being conducted for the sake of the U.S. gaining military superiority over the Soviet Union.”— Yuri Andropov
“I'm not at all sure that the old bipolar world was more dangerous than the one we are in now.”— Lawrence Eagleburger
“The greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet communism, is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping.”— George F. Kennan
“Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.”— Nikita Khrushchev
“The Cold War was a massive distraction from the real issues that plagued the United States.”— Robert Scheer
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”— Winston Churchill
“They are trying to get a leg up on us, and we are trying to get a leg up on them. It is a continual, constant struggle.”— Andrei Gromyko
“The decisive sections of the American bourgeoisie have decided that they can no longer live in the same world with the Soviet Union.”— Earl Browder
“The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.”— George F. Kennan