Mr. Franke is currently serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Defense spending is not the cause of our economic problems.

We must seek agreements that involve substantial and militarily significant reductions on both sides.

The safety net is intact and is providing for those people that have real need.

Well, I think it would have an effect either way.

We do not seek agreements for their own sake; we seek them to build international security and stability.

Agreements must be based on the principle of equality of rights and limits.

Arms control agreements must include effective means of verification.

A half a loaf is better than none.

I think our stubbornness—if you want to call it that—will quite literally pay off for every American in the years ahead.

We still have a long way to go, but we've turned the corner and are moving forward.

Arms control must be an instrument of, and not a substitute for, a coherent security policy aimed in the first instance at the Soviet advantage in the most destabilizing class of weapons—ballistic missiles and, especially, intercontinental…