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

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

There is no pure free-market economy.

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.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity

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

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