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The Us Wished Things To Turn Out As They Did, And Worked To Bring This About. The Department Of State Desired That The Un Prove Utterly Ineffective In Whatever Measures It Undertook. This Task Was Given To Me, And I Carried It Forward With No Inconsiderable Success.

The Single Most Exciting Thing You Encounter In Government Is Competence, Because It's So Rare.

The Institution Of The Family Is Decisive In Determining Not Only If A Person Has The Capacity To Love Another Individual But In The Larger Social Sense Whether He Is Capable Of Loving His Fellow Men Collectively. The Whole Of Society Rests On This Foundation For Stability, Understanding And Social Peace.

If We Get Into The Mind-set Where The Good Becomes The Enemy Of The Best, We Will Get Nothing.

The Soviet Union Came Apart Along Ethnic Lines. The Most Important Factor In This Breakup Was The Disinclination Of Slavic Ukraine To Continue Under A Regime Dominated By Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia Came Apart Also, Beginning With A Brutal Clash Between Serbia And Croatia, Here Again 'nations' With Only The Smallest Differences In Genealogy; With, Indeed, Practically A Common Language. Ethnic Conflict Does Not Require Great Differences; Small Will Do.