Robert Dallek said this quote

The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.

~ Robert Dallek

JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.

~ Robert Dallek

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history.

~ Robert Dallek

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

~ Robert Dallek