Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

Risk-taking is the essence of innovation.

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

Christians are called to be the deliverers of people and nations

Storytelling is in our DNA. It's what differentiates humans from other species: we don't just communicate information. We tell stories.

Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.

Be brave enough to break your own heart.

To me, nature always appears more unbalanced than Gary Busey with a clogged Eustachian tube.

If you hire people who are smarter than you, maybe you are showing that you are a little bit smarter than them.

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.