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.

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

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.

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

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

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

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred