Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

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

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

There is no pure free-market economy.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

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.

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.