We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Freedom is not enough.

I hope your mind's not as empty as that desk

We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols that protect what we cherish.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

He was the one person I ever knew, anywhere, who was never afraid.