Secrecy is for losers.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.