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

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

There is no pure free-market economy.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

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

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

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.