I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

Every American president, regardless of party, has said that America has an intense interest in a peaceful resolution. And I think it should be left at that.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.