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

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

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.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

There is no pure free-market economy.

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.

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.