I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in part, a misjudgment about the nature of the communist system and the unity of the communist world and the degree to which the experience of Europe could be repeated in Vietnam.

I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation