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

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.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Charm never made a rooster.

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.