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.

I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

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

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

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