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

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

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

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

Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

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