I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.

Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

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

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.