All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

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

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

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.

They (american press) always blame America first!