I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I.

If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts.

The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.