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

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.

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.

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

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I'm more womanly. I feel sexier.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.