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

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

History is a better guide than good intentions.

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

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

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created

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.