The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role apart from Europe, based on a special relationship with the United States, on being the head of the Commonwealthis about to be played out. Her Majesty's Government is now attempting, wisely in my opinion, to re-enter Europe.

With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.