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"There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans."
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"Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality."
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"It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense."
Defence
"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."
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"I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking."
Thinking
"Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion."
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"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."
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"World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race."
War
"I'm against fashionable thinking."
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"Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral."
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"For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur."
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"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."
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"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."
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"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."
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"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."
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"So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are."
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"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."
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"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."
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"Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer."
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"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"
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"Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups."
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