Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

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

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

Everyone is born a millionaire, it is your God-given right to have an abundance of everything, health, money and love.

we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.

Confound the subtlety of lawyers with the subtlety of the law.

The truth of the matter is that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community.

Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.