Quotes
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
The future comes one day at a time.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?