The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".

The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.