There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working.

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.

Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.