No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

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

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

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

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.

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

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