The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

Whoever is holding the power says, "Yeah, let's keep things civil and quiet." Whoever's outside say's, "No, I'm not going to keep things civil and quiet, I'm going to bang on the door."

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.

The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.

Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire.

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.