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

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

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

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

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.

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

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