This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

It [the war in Vietnam] poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our people, and now it is interfering with this critical question of the arms race.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be true, but it is not truth, and reporters and officials seldom see it the same way. In the old days, the reporters or couriers of bad news were often put to the gallows; now they are given the Pulitzer Prize, but the conflict goes on.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.