If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.