Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

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

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

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

[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.

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.

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