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

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created

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.

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.