Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

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

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

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

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

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.