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

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

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

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

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

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

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.