There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view we were happy to see that the British Government has on its part accepted the principle of nationalization.

If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.