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

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.