When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.