The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

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!

Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.

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

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

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.

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