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

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

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

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

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.

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.