You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?