When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

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

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

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

History is a better guide than good intentions.

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.