Power is the great aphrodisiac.

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.

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

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

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

To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.