It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.

We see what we want to believe.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

There are many ways to make the death rate increase.