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.

You look at it from a long-term view and say, what's best for the organization over a long haul?

[Every season, fashion experts jokingly describe the popular color as] the new black. ... black is the new black.

Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.

That is not for my organization to speak to.

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.