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

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

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

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.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Brains are no substitute for judgement.