World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse.

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.