And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.