The U.S. has no friends, only interests.
Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.
The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.
We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.
Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.
The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.