The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.
We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.
The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.
Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.
World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue
Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.
Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
If you can dream, you can do.
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.