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.

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

There is no pure free-market economy.

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

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.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.