Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.

I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without the necessity of arousing the public ire.

Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.

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