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

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.