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

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

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

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

There is no pure free-market economy.

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.

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.