Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

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

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

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

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.

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