Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries.

As a professor, I tended to think of history as run by impersonal forces. But when you see it in practice, you see the difference personalities make.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

'Who do I call if I want to call Europe?'

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

I don't think it is right to let OPEC run roughshod over the American consumer and we make no comment other than to say, 'Gosh, we have a lot on our plate.'

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.