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

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

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.

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

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.

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.