The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

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.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.