You are in the courtroom of world opinion:. All right, sir, let me ask you one simple question: Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the U.S.S.R. has placed and is placing medium- and intermediate-range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no - don't wait for the translation - yes or no?' [The Soviet representative refuses to answer.] 'You can answer yes or no. You have denied they exist. I want to know if I understood you correctly. I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over, if that's your decision. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room.

She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

I recommended that we establish contact with [the Chinese communists]. We had established contact through a military mission there but that we did not ... we s…

The hostile attitude of the Soviet government towards Germany and the serious threat represented by the concentration of Russian troops on the borders of the C…

There are no U.S. flyers in our country. The bodies were handed over to the Americans. We have no other bodies of flyers or living flyers in the Soviet Union. …