... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view to adopting ways and means to offset any adverse effects on the per barrel real income of Member Countries resulting from the international monetary developments as of 15th August 1971.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

We must adopt reforms which will expand the range of opportunities for all Americans. We can fulfill the American dream only when each person has a fair chance to fulfill his own dreams. This means equal voting rights, equal employment opportunity and new opportunities for expanded ownership, because in order to be secure in their human rights, people need access to property rights.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.