William Perry Quotations

I am just relaxing and enjoying myself, doing what I always did.

Even when I was little, I was big.

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field.

We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.

I got my family here and my career here and I'm sitting here in the middle, and I'm stuck. So I have to do something, you know, have to reach out and get some help.

Every Friday we'd do a final practice 'walk-through' for the game, and I just remember we were always out on the field dancing and singing together.

I'm moving around; doing stuff. I can walk. I can even run.

The best part of my life is having my kids.

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

I don't believe anybody can be protected with high confidence from car bombs in urban areas. The Israelis and the British have worked as hard on this problem for years as anybody can. They have not provided an adequate protection for their population against car bombs in urban areas. That's -- that is a very, very difficult threat.

I believe the assessment that if we pull out it will leave an unsettled situation that is bad for the neighborhood and bad for us. Therefore I'd be willing to stay longer if I believed what we're doing would lead to progress in six to 12 months. But I have not seen that evidence, so I'm skeptical that it will. . . . So it may be what we're pursuing, if not effective, then there's no point to it.

If the strain is not relieved, it will have highly corrosive and long-term effects on the military.

We're not a team anyone's going to forget.

There are a lot of military and commercial interests in this technology.

With special economic zones being set up in Russia, Western investors and companies can look forward to making money there.

What is pretty clear is that we will be faced with the specter of another nuclear power which can use their weapons to threaten South Korea, to threaten Japan . . . with every prospect that they will sell some of that plutonium and nuclear bombs to the highest bidder so they might end up in American cities as well.

The worst-case scenario I see is a major nuclear arms race unfolding in the Pacific. That's not a forecast, that's a logical train of events.

This is not a new idea. The development has been much more difficult than most people believed.

The message was, briefly stated, that the political process is working.

I do not have for you at this time anything that I might characterize as a definitive response to this idea.