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

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.

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

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

I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.

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.