There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.

A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

The president needs to be a force that is trusted in the world.

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.

I ask myself why I do it [work]. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

I basically went out with any guy who asked me because hardly anyone ever asked me out.

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.