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The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.
It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.
Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.
What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be
They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.
There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.
The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.
The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.
From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources.
We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.
As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.
It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.
Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.
All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.
Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.
Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.
The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase.
If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.
No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.
The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman.
That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.
It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.
I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president.
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.
By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.
I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.
A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active.
I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.
The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.
In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.
If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.
Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.
Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war.
[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.
Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.