This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.