The best post-cold war quotes all in one place – From 1990 to actual events
Post-cold war quote in the nuclear / radioactive topic / modern age
“After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked.”
Susan Eisenhower
Post-cold war quote from Wladimir Klitschko
“In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn’t get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted to see the ocean, I wanted to see boats, I wanted to see black people, because we didn’t have that in the Soviet Union. I was all excited by that stuff.”
Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer and after it, politician
Post-cold war quote from England
“I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn’t.”
Jeremy Corbyn, British politician
Post-cold war quote from a Russian dictator
“The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.”
Vladimir Putin
Post-cold war quote from an other Russian dictator
“The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What’s good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War, with the U.S. or any other country in the world.”
Dmitry Medvedev, Russian politician, who could not stop Russian wars in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria
Post-cold war quote from a US president
“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.”
George W. Bush
Post-cold war quote from a law maker
“A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost, Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don’t hear a word about it.“
Michael Baumgartner, Republican politician
Post-cold war quote from a US president
“Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela. These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.”
Barack Obama
Post-cold war quote from Gorbachev
“The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes.”
ex-Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev
Post-cold war quote from the most talented politician
“Make injustice visible.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Post-cold war quote from the most talented politician (2)
“It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Post-cold war quote from the most talented politician (3)
“Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Post-cold war quote from the most talented politician (4)
“Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.”
Mahatma Gandhi
