I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.