“Unless you have a sense of values that’s shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values.”

If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

There’s a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter.

Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.

The organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn’t work very well.

As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack.

Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.

An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.

I don’t think there’s any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.

You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time.

Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America’s vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S.

Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.

The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War.

I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they’re going to exist. But they’re losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.

Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time.

Having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.