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!

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.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the - not so very - long run.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.