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

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

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

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

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.

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

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