The British are very stubborn. The Queen, the Commonwealth, and the special relationship with the U.S. is much more important than Europe.

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.

Every morning is a big, bright, window that opens just for you to fill your life with the light of joy.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.

Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.

I'm just the same age I've always been.

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that.

I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.

Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.

Mr. President, you’re entitled as a president to your own airplane, and to your own house, but not to your own facts.

If I'm excited by something bodily, and curious about it, I generally want to delve into it and explore it with poetry. That's the way I ordinarily watch the world around me.