What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system

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.

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

With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

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.

We are all the President's men.