I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

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

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

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

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.

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

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