The U.S. has no friends, only interests.

Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.

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.

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

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.

I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.