Kingman Brewster

"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation."

"You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly."

"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."

"Maybe you are the “cool” generation … If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."

"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."

"Kingman Brewster Jr., 69, Ex-Yale President and U.S. Envoy, Dies" in The New York Times"

"It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II."

"None of these strictures, however, should inhibit any one of us, in his individual capacity, from declaring himself on the issues of the trial and its fairness … So in spite of my insistence on the li…"