President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important details in that field, which lead to a situation in which his aides played a much greater roles than aides would have played under President Ford or let us say in the whole Nixon-Ford-Kissinger era.

Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.

The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make up for a actual or perceived disequilibrium in the conventional field by having more nuclear weapons.

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

President [Ronald] Reagan told me he would negotiate and negotiate and negotiate with the Soviets, and I believed him.

Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.