What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

There is no pure free-market economy.

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

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