A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

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.

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.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

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

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.