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.

If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and deploy them. That's the normal way of thinking of the military, in America not only but also all over the place, but America or Russia or other countries.

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

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

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

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