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Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

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.

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

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

People who have visions should go see a doctor.

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

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.

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

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

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

[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.

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