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

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

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

You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.