How to Achieve The New World Order

We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solve every problem without exhausting itself. Therefore, we have to establish priorities.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.