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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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