We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.

If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.