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

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

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

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.

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.

[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.

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