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

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

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

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 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.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

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