And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

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

Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.

Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.