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.

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.

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

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