The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction

The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization.