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

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.

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.

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

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

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