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.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.

Certainly nothing is easier than to rewrite history. If we had made Taiwan a separate state, it would have led to a fundamental conflict with China, and probably to war. Certainly in the long term, it would have led to war.

We are doomed to coexist.

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

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