Rationality will not save us.

The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.

The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.

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

We see what we want to believe.

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.