I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

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

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

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

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

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

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.