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

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

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

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

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.

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

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.