Helmut Schmidt

People who have visions should go see a doctor.

— Helmut Schmidt

If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more…

— Helmut Schmidt

[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the…

— Helmut Schmidt

I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of…

— Helmut Schmidt

Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.

— Helmut Schmidt

Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that.

— Helmut Schmidt

Ronad Reagan might go down to history as a man who in the end of this administration brought about the first nuclear…

— Helmut Schmidt

President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important…

— Helmut Schmidt

What I do see, for instance, is that the French are not very happy with the ... I am happy but they…

— Helmut Schmidt

President [Ronald] Reagan told me he would negotiate and negotiate and negotiate with the Soviets, and I believed him.

— Helmut Schmidt

The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make…

— Helmut Schmidt

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

— Helmut Schmidt

I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980,…

— Helmut Schmidt

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

— Helmut Schmidt

I've never been a classic Gaulist! Not a Gaulist at all.

— Helmut Schmidt

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.

— Helmut Schmidt

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was…

— Helmut Schmidt

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

— Helmut Schmidt

The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in…

— Helmut Schmidt

In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which…

— Helmut Schmidt

Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.

— Helmut Schmidt

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

— Helmut Schmidt