Even paranoid people have enemies.

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

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

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 am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

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.