The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

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

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

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.

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

We see what we want to believe.

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