A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
¶ "Warm Hearts and Cool Hands," speech (1976)
Quoted in A Government as Good as Its People, J. Carter (1977)
