A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created

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

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

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest

When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

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