We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

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

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

I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

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

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