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

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

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

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

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

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.