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 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.

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

Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

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.

Follow your own morality but never forget to be kind. Kindness is always better than morality.

Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.

No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.

You don’t share me. You own me.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

In my day-to-day life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like being comfortable.

Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.