Disarmament Talks Quotes

You can’t go making new nuclear weapons and talk to the rest of the world about giving them up.

Free and open interchange of information across national borders as a prerequisite for U.S. disarmament talks with the Soviet Union.

One of the surprising things that Brezhnev said when we were in our talks, was - when I proposed that we make these changes in nuclear weaponry, he said, "God will never forgive us if we don't succeed." And, you know, coming from the leader of an atheistic communist country, this surprised everyone.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does.

I compliment President Obama on having these summits each year in Washington in which people have talked about ridding the world of materials of mass destruction.

Talking to the superpowers about disarmament is like talking to drug dealers about stopping drug deliveries.

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.

I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at the same time was an election year in America, these negotiations would not go very far, but immediately after the start of the Reagan administration we in Bonn started to try influencing them on the medium-range nuclear weapons negotiations, and we told them that in our view the best outcome would be zero-zero, zero on either side.