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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.