Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.