The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives me some hope that the human race won't commit suicide, though I still wouldn't count on it.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.