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

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

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

I've never been a classic Gaulist! Not a Gaulist at all.

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

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.

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