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.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

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

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

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

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.