A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

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. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.