When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

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

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

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

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

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.