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

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.

I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.

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.

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

There is no pure free-market economy.