The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
From Dean Acheson
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
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