CASPAR WEINBERGER

I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.

Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.

I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.

Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.