Henry Kissinger: “The concern I had with the Iranian agreement was that it legitimized the eventual emergence of Iran as a nuclear power.”

I think we need a strong State Department.

This raises these fundamental questions. What is the strategic relationship between these countries vis-a-vis the prospect of peace?

This is the most volatile and complex period since World War II.

My basic point is that we can maintain a favorable balance of power, but we must couple it with a political structure in which the issue of war and peace can be used as a diplomatic as well as a military expression.