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

When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

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.

Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.

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.