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We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such alliances has become a maxim of our policy consecrated by the most venerated names which adorn our history and sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the American people.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We will do everything in our power to make sure cross-strait stability becomes the driving force for peace in the Asia-Pacific region.