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.

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.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

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

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.