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.

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.

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

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

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

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