One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness

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

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

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

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

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.