It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.