Bill Keating actually said...

"If we are to arrest the decline in American global leadership, this Congress must reassert itself."

"While none of these agreements were perfect, and both sides have continued to develop new and more powerful weapons, our arms control regimes have kept us on the brink of mutually assured destruction."

"Even as a very young child, I clearly remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, as do many of my colleagues."

"Many of us, including the then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, believed we were on the brink of a nuclear war."