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

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

You know, this is a very strange phenomenon. I keep reading that in American newspapers, and I keep reading extensive speculations. I meet with the Chinese leaders periodically, and while I don't say they've endorsed the missile shield, it has not been in the forefront of their discussions.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.