The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old.