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

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

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.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

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

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

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