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

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.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

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.

Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

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