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

The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in the North Atlantic Treaty, has been built up in the course of history, in the course of history France has left that organization. Normally the Alliance has been lead by consent, building up consensus on important issues of questions, in many instances over the last 30 years that I have followed events closely. In many, many cases was being done under the spiritual guidance of the American President, that is true, but sometimes also at the guidance of others.

People who have visions should go see a doctor.

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

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.

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

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.