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

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.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

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

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.

I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.