If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, there should be a dialogue on these issues.

If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy.

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.