Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.

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.

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.