The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

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

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." [...] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.

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.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.