"The great strength and enduring value of the Fulbright Program has been its ability to work patiently and persistently to build human networks around the globe."
"The simple, basic purpose of the Fulbright exchange program we intitiated over forty years ago is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another."
"...to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries..."
- Fulbright legislation
"The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope -- possibly our best hope and conceivably our only hope -- for the survival and further progree of humanity"
"The essential aim of the Fulbright Program is to encourage people in all countries, and especially their political leaders, to stop denying others the right to their own view of reality and to develop a new manner of thinking about how to avoid war rather than to wage it."
"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects."