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

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

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

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

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

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.

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