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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.