While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.