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

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

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.

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.

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.

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