Vernon A. Walters Quotations

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

The program, ... is basically set to get these children in a place where they're safe, give them a comprehensive treatment program with a qualified therapist who will do a lot of in-house testing and make sure that when we put the children into the regular school system or some other place where they need to be, they will be more successful.

They have truly dedicated their entire lives to making a positive difference in the lives of each child at Nazareth.

I cannot think of any other couple who deserves this honor any more than Jim and Arlene,

These are children we and the schools work with every day, but they're failing because they need one-on-one supervision, and we can give them that in this program.

For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . .

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.