War is not the continuation of politics with different means it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Fiction will always be my greatest love with poetry close behind.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Well the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words that is to say the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry prophecy and religion all in one.

I will try to work for greater reconciliation cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

Competition in armament both land and naval is not only a terrible burden upon the people but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.