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

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.