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.
– Vernon A. Walters
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.
– Vernon A. Walters
I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
– Vernon A. Walters
I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
– Vernon A. Walters
It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
– Vernon A. Walters
The fact that I was a bachelor provided two opportunities or two handles that they might get on me, namely, girls or boys.
– Vernon A. Walters
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.