I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.
Billy GrahamThe doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.
Noam ChomskySome have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
George W. BushWhy should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?
John F. KennedyYou probably don’t need more weapons than what’s required to destroy every city on earth. There’s only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons – well, we’ve got more than 25,000!
Carl SaganAs far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don’t know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they’re developing what’s called ‚nuclear capability,‘ which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That’s not a crime.
Noam ChomskyThe U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
Madeleine AlbrightThe White House is the finest prison in the world.
Harry S. TrumanNATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
Noam ChomskyThe Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
Lyndon B. JohnsonAlthough September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
Stephen HawkingI call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald ReaganIn much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.
Noam ChomskyIf… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
Margaret ThatcherWar is what happens when language fails.
Margaret AtwoodWhen you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.
Michelle ObamaTake the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will RogersOn some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. MenckenDo you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
John F. KennedyOver the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.
Noam ChomskyRonald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
Christopher HitchensThe original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the bomb work.
Richard P. FeynmanFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Winston ChurchillI’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.
Michelle ObamaEven the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated – preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.
Thomas SowellWithout a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.
Fidel CastroI believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.
Jimmy CarterThe professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that’s all it is, then we’ve gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
Carl SaganThe Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
Richard M. NixonIn 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.
Noam ChomskyAn election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George EliotWhen I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.
Alice WalkerI wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
Jimmy CarterI’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.
Neil ArmstrongIn September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn – the climax of a ‚day of awe,‘ as the press described it.
Noam ChomskyFollowing the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.
Fidel CastroTwenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
Fidel CastroIn November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors.
Noam ChomskyThe terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
Maya AngelouToday I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
Colin PowellSeptember 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.
Noam ChomskyBy disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.
Noam ChomskyThe White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
Joe BidenMr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Ronald ReaganI’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.
Richard M. NixonI can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
Jimmy CarterThere’s not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.
Colin PowellIndia can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThere are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they’re not implemented fully, because the U.S. won’t allow it.
Noam ChomskyLet us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. KennedyI think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
Eleanor RooseveltAs we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.
Russell M. NelsonIf the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
Ronald ReaganThe U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
Fidel CastroI don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.
Golda MeirIt is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
Billy GrahamWe should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
Narendra ModiThere are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
John F. KennedyCastro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
Richard M. Nixon