Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.

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.

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

Failure is falling up!

A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

I think I kind of grew up with that a little bit and have great admiration for people who do [medical practice] for a living and who are real empaths. So I suppose I drew on - , from my mom a bit.

Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!