Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers.

I wanted to say in the Security Council, "There is no cause for alarm. The rumbling sound that you hear is the normal noise of the Soviet ambassador being lowered and locked into a fixed position." But I never got to say it, the time was never quite right.

Now that he has changed the weather, Lion and lamb can vote together. God bless the Russian delegation, I waive consecutive translation.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.