Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.

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.

What I do see, for instance, is that the French are not very happy with the ... I am happy but they are not and I understand why they are not happy. They still believe in some nuclear strategic formulas which they have inherited from General De Gaulle and they have started the process of rethinking, they haven't gone very far.

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

People who have visions should go see a doctor.

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

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