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

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

Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.

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.

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

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

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.