The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

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

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

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

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