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

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

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

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

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.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

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