Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be true, but it is not truth, and reporters and officials seldom see it the same way. In the old days, the reporters or couriers of bad news were often put to the gallows; now they are given the Pulitzer Prize, but the conflict goes on.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.