To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

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.

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.

Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.

Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.