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.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

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.

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

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

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.