I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

He probably tried to do too much because he was forced into that position.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.