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

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

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

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

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.

When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.