The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic, as…

- James R. Schlesinger

We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring …

- James R. Schlesinger

We have only two modes - complacency and panic.

- James R. Schlesinger

Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.

- James R. Schlesinger

Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s...That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of the possibility of …

- James R. Schlesinger