I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation but always willing and capable of taking into account the interests of their allies, whoever: the British, or the French or the Germans or others.

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

Ronad Reagan might go down to history as a man who in the end of this administration brought about the first nuclear arms reduction treaty, the first arms reduction treaty at all in the modern world, and this is quite something.

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.