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

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

History is a better guide than good intentions.

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

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.

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

Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.