That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

We must not be innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.

What might save us, me and you, is if the Russians love their children too.

Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.

An ally need not own the land he helps.

Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-cen-tury politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.

Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.