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.

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

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

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

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

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.

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