If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

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

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.