For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

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.

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.

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.