Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

People who have visions should go see a doctor.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.

President [Ronald] Reagan told me he would negotiate and negotiate and negotiate with the Soviets, and I believed him.

I've never been a classic Gaulist! Not a Gaulist at all.

Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that.

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

Boxes of religion I avoid as I embrace the freedom that Christ gave me at great cost upon the cross

Living in the shadows is cold... know this before you go living there.

Where no plan is laid where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident chaos will soon reign.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Baby get ready, get set, please don't go.

The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity

I want to do small things, for small people, and to make the small people big.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

There's nothing like a great piece of theater - a great performance in a great piece of theater.