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

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

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