I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

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

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.

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.

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

History is a better guide than good intentions.