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

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!

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

I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.