Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

Risk-taking is the essence of innovation.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.