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.

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

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

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.

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

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger